help, about schema

[bennych]

Hi ,

I have an xml file which has the following requirement :

A root node will have :
i> one or more required nodes (can occurs 1 or n times) and
ii> some optional nodes (can occurs 0 or 1 times) and
iii> some optional nodes (can occurs 0 or n times) and
iiii> all the nodes are in any orders.

e.g.

<root>
<title>abc</title>
<creator>benny</creator>
<creator>danny</creator>
<date>yyyy-mm-dd</date>
</root>

notes:
the title node is a required node (occurs 1 or n times)
the creator nodes are optional nodes (occurs 0 or n times)
the date node is a node that cannot be repeated (occurs 0 or 1 times)
all these nodes can list in any order.


I'm not able to create a schema with the above restrction using the existing XSD indicaters( "All", "choice" or "sequence") .

hope somebody can give me some idea

 

[chiph]

The problem is requirement 4: All the nodes are in any orders.

This basically says you've got an unstructured document. You need to go back to whoever is giving you this document and get them to decide on an order.

Chip H.


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