XML Tutorial/XML Schema/minInclusive

Cardinality represents the number of occurrences of a specific element within a content model.

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You can modify an element"s cardinality by specifying the minOccurs and maxOccurs attributes within the element declaration. Some possible uses of the minOccursand maxOccursattributes include the following: <element name="first" type="string" minOccurs="2" maxOccurs="2"/> <element ref="target:first" maxOccurs="10"/> <element name="location" ""minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> The default value for the minOccurs attribute and the maxOccurs attribute is 1.</source>

minInclusive Defines the inclusive lower bound for a datatype with the ordered property

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<xsd:simpleType name="editionType">

 <xsd:restriction base="xsd:nonNegativeInteger">
  <xsd:minInclusive value="1"/>
  <xsd:maxInclusive value="10"/>
 </xsd:restriction>

</xsd:simpleType></source>

The xsd:minInclusive facet specifies the highest possible value for an element

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File: Schema.xsd

<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

 targetNamespace="http://www.wbex.ru" xmlns="http://www.wbex.ru"
 elementFormDefault="qualified">
 <xsd:element name="start_date">
   <xsd:simpleType>
     <xsd:restriction base="xsd:date">
       <xsd:minInclusive value="1999-07-25" />
     </xsd:restriction>
   </xsd:simpleType>
 </xsd:element>

</xsd:schema>

File: Data.xml <?xml version="1.0"?>

<start_date xmlns="http://www.wbex.ru">1999-07-25</start_date></source>