xs:Key is working on Tamino 4.4?

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All,

I’m working with Tamino 4.4 and I want to set a constrain using xs:key. I know that Tamino 4.4 schema supports xs:key, but I’m not sure if the feature is working.

I made the following simple schema with a constrain xs:key, the problem is that I can insert several times the Person document with the same ID, it supposes that the ID should be unique due to it was declared as the key elemet.

Also I would like to use keyRef for integrity but I want to solve this first issue.

Is something wrong in my shema? or is not xs:key constrain supported by Tamino?

Does Tamino 4.4 manage the ref integrity whit xs:key and xs:keyRef?

Here is the Schema code:

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:tsd = "http://namespaces.softwareag.com/tamino/TaminoSchemaDefinition" xmlns:xs = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:appinfo>
      <tsd:schemaInfo name = "test">
        <tsd:collection name = "test"></tsd:collection>
        <tsd:doctype name = "Person">
          <tsd:logical>
            <tsd:content>closed</tsd:content>
          </tsd:logical>
        </tsd:doctype>
      </tsd:schemaInfo>
    </xs:appinfo>
  </xs:annotation>
  <xs:element name = "Person">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name = "ID" type = "xs:string"></xs:element>
        <xs:element name = "Name" type = "xs:string"></xs:element>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
    <xs:key name = "Person_key">
      <xs:selector xpath = "Person"></xs:selector>
      <xs:field xpath = "ID"></xs:field>
    </xs:key>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

Thanks in advance,

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Claudio,

the xs:key is working as specified: it guarantees uniqueness WITHIN A SINGLE document. What you expect, is uniqueness AMONG SEVERAL documents. There is no standard feature in XML Schema to express this. However, there is a Tamino feature providing exactly this functionality: tsd:unique (please use the documentation search to find out the details)

Regards

Harald

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Hi Claudio

in addition to Harald’s remark, you should correct the value of the xpath attribute of xs:selector to be “.” (for tsd:unique this is the built-in default):

<xs:element name = “Person”>
xs:complexType
xs:sequence
<xs:element name = “ID” type = “xs:string”></xs:element>
<xs:element name = “Name” type = “xs:string”></xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:key name = “Person_key”>
<xs:selector xpath = “.”></xs:selector>
<xs:field xpath = “ID”></xs:field>
</xs:key>
</xs:element>

Regards
Uli

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Hi,

Thanks Harald and Uli for your answers.

About the Harald’s question… I’m expected unique values of a specific element among several documents and I think that xs:keyRef also works within a single document, isn’t it?

Regards,

Claudio

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Hi Claudio

indeed - xs:keyRef has only a scope of a single document.
So far, Tamino does not support an analogon to xs:keyRef having
a scope of all documents in a doctype.

Regards
Uli