Issue validating xml against xsd with xsd:any
dpomt
Hello,
I am trying to use xsd:any to allow arbitrary unqualified XML code below an
element.
However, doing so leads to validation failure (sample xml, xsd and error see
below).
What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
dpomt
person.xsd:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="TEST"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="person">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="firstname" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="lastname" type="xs:string" />
<xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1">
<xs:any minOccurs="0" namespace="##local" processContents="lax" />
</xs:choice>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
sample xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<person xmlns="TEST" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="TEST person.xsd">
<firstname>Hege</firstname>
<lastname>Refsnes</lastname>
<childrenXx>
<childname>Cecilie</childname>
</childrenXx>
</person>
Validation error:
In content of element <person>: The content model does not allow element
<childrenXx> to appear here. Expected: anyOf{##local}
Steven Cheng
From your XML schema you use the xs:choice element which wrapper the xs:any
element, xs:choice may expect a given set of elements(and choose from
them), those elements is likely to be well definted one instead of any
possible XML elements. Have you tried xml:all or just using xs:sequence as
the wrapper element around xs:any to see whether it works?
Sincerely,
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>From: =?Utf-8?B?ZHBvbXQ=?= <dpo...@nospam.nospam>
>Subject: Issue validating xml against xsd with xsd:any
>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:41:01 -0800
Martin Honnen
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="TEST"
> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
> <xs:element name="person">
> <xs:complexType>
> <xs:sequence>
> <xs:element name="firstname" type="xs:string" />
> <xs:element name="lastname" type="xs:string" />
> <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1">
> <xs:any minOccurs="0" namespace="##local" processContents="lax" />
##local means in _no namespace_, if you want to allow elements in the
targetNamespace then you need to use
namespace="##targetNamespace"
on the xs:any element.
You could however get other problems that way, in particular ambiguity.
--
Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
dpomt
thanks for your post.
Using xml:all or xml:sequence does not change the described behavior.
Best regards
dpomt
""Steven Cheng"" wrote:
> .
>
dpomt
thanks for your post.
> ##local means in _no namespace_, if you want to allow elements in the
> targetNamespace then you need to use
> namespace="##targetNamespace"
> on the xs:any element.
just changing ##local to ##targetNamespace still lead to same validation
error.
The solution was to add an additional namespace that contains the childrenXx
element:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="TEST"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="childrenXx">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="childname" type="xs:string" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
and the XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<person xmlns="TEST" xmlns:add="TEST.EXTENSION"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="TEST person.xsd TEST.EXTENSION add.xsd">
<firstname>Hege</firstname>
<lastname>Refsnes</lastname>
<childrenXx>
<childname>Cecilie</childname>
</childrenXx>
</person>
It is possible to have arbitrary XML tags with xsd:any without defining them
in a (separate) XSD?
Thanks,
dpomt
