Describe repeating XML nodes in W3C XML Schema?
- by NotMyName
I have an XML document like:
<Root>
<Bravo />
<Alpha />
<Charlie />
<Charlie />
<Delta />
<Foxtrot />
<Charlie />
</Root>
The order of the nodes does not matter. Each node may appear zero or one times, except for Charlie. Charlie may appear zero, one, or arbitrarily many times. The straightforward way to express this in XSD is:
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:element name="Root">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:all>
<xsd:element name="Alpha" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="Bravo" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="Charlie" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:element name="Delta" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="Echo" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="Foxtrot" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
</xsd:all>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>
But this does not work, because xsd:all does not allow for maxOccurs greater than 1. Since I cannot use xsd:all, what should I use?
