| Alan Powell/UK/IBM@IBMGB
Sent by: dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org 06/08/2009 17:15 |
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| initiatedContent | Booloean
When 'true' indicates that all the children of the choice are initiated. It is a schema definition error if any children have their dfdl:initiator property set to the empty string. When 'false', the children of the choice may have their dfdl:initiator property set to the empty string. Annotation: dfdl:sequence, dfdl:choice, dfdl:group |
It would help implementations decide more quickly if optional complex elements
are present, and therefore have to save state less often, if initiatedContent
was also made discriminating. I would expect that in most uses cases the
initiator is the discriminator so this change would make that simpler to
specify. The same effect can be achieved by adding a dfdl:discriminator
to each element but that is having to specify the same intent twice.
If the initiator is not the discriminator then initiatedContent can be
set to 'false'. You lose the schema checking but this is a less common
case.
What do you think?
Alan Powell
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