element must have a child 1

[MaineRunner]

I am working on a schema for validating incoming XML data files. The basic form of the xml coming in should be:

<job_foo>

    <global_info>
      ...
    </global_info>

    <data>
       print data here
    </data>
    <data>
       more print data
    </data>
    ...more data tags

</job_foo>

In my schema, I want to verfiy that there are elements below the 'data' tag. Validation of that informaiton is done in a second validation step. Therefore this schema only cares that the sending applicaiton has sent something below data tag, but it does not know about the contents of data tags.

Could someone tell/show me a way to use the XML schema to verify there is a child (or children) under 'data'?

Thanks

 

[tsuji]

Device the top level element named "data" and refer to it in the job_foo element.
[tt]
<xs:element name="data">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:any namespace="##any" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="skip" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
[/tt]
ps: If you allow mixed type content, put mixed="true" into xs:element tag. If you further allow any attribute to data, add xs:anyAttribute after the xs:sequence.

 

[MaineRunner]

Don't understand what you mean by:

Device the top level element named "data" and refer to it in the job_foo element

 

[tsuji]

[tt]<xs:schema xmlns:xs="

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

elementFormDefault="qualified">>

<xs:element name="data">
<!-- etc etc -->
</xs:element>

<xs:element name="job_foo">
<!-- etc etc : what do you have here? you pose the question as if you have something here -->
<xs:element ref="data" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<!-- etc etc -->
</xs:element>

<!-- etc etc -->

</xs:schema>[/tt]

 

[MaineRunner]

In the original snippet, the root element of the schema is job_foo. It has the child global_info (occurrs once) and child data (occurs 1 to N).

by "device" you mean to pull out the data element information and put it equal to job_foo in the xsd?

 

[tsuji]

I meant what I showed you.