XSD: same element with different properties

[lantoli]

I have this XML:

...
<data>
...
<field name="color">red</field>
<field name="doors">4</field>
...
</data>
...

I wonder if it's possible to make a schema that constrains the field elements, so the first field name must be color, next one doors, etc. It'd also be very useful if the data type could be constrained, e.g. color is a string, doors is a decimal.

The problem I'm facing is that all elements have the same name, "field", so I don't know how to constrain them in a sequence.

Thanks a lot for your help.

 

[chiph]

You can't do this because the element name is the same -- there's no way for an XSD restriction to work because it can't tell the difference between the two types of content.

Chip H.


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