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With XML Schema, one element can substitute another element.
Let's illustrate with an example: our users come from the UK and Norway. We want to allow users to choose whether to use Norwegian or English element names in their XML documents.
To solve this problem, we can define a substitutionGroup in the XML schema. First, we declare the head element, then we declare the member elements, which can declare that they are able to substitute the head element.
In the example above, the "name" element is the head element, and the "navn" element can substitute the "name" element.
Consider the following fragment of an XML schema:
A valid XML document (according to the schema above) might look like this:
John Smithor like this:
John SmithTo prevent other elements from substituting a specific element, use the block attribute:
<xs:element name="name" type="xs:string" block="substitu
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