Complex Type definitionType

Item	Value
Namespace	http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0
Annotations	The element definition contains the structure of a complex definition. A definition is composed of one or more references to the term(s) being defined (the definiendum, or def, or definition head), one or more references to the sentence(s) used to define it (called definiens, or definition body), plus plain text elements for the condition and the scope of the definition. Attribute temporal provides further constraints. The complex type parliamentaryAnalysisType lists all the properties associated to elements in the parliamentary analysis.

Specification

Item	Value
Used by	Elements definition

Model

definitionHead+ , definitionBody+ , condition* , scope*

Children

Item	Value
Children	Elements condition, definitionBody, definitionHead, scope

Attributes

QName	Type	Use
@GUID	noWhiteSpace	optional
@eId	noWhiteSpace	optional
@for	eIdRef	optional
@period	temporalGroupRef	optional
@refersTo	list of referenceRef	optional
@wId	noWhiteSpace	optional

Item	Value
Wildcard	ANY attribute from ANY namespace OTHER than 'http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0'

Source

<xsd:complexType name="definitionType"> <xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>The element definition contains the structure of a complex definition. A definition is composed of one or more references to the term(s) being defined (the definiendum, or def, or definition head), one or more references to the sentence(s) used to define it (called definiens, or definition body), plus plain text elements for the condition and the scope of the definition. Attribute temporal provides further constraints. The complex type parliamentaryAnalysisType lists all the properties associated to elements in the parliamentary analysis.</xsd:documentation>
</xsd:annotation> <xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="definitionHead" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> <xsd:element ref="definitionBody" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> <xsd:element ref="condition" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> <xsd:element ref="scope" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xsd:sequence> <xsd:attributeGroup ref="core"/> <xsd:attributeGroup ref="idreq"/> <xsd:attributeGroup ref="refers"/>