How to ignore the validation of Unknown tags ?
- by infant programmer
One more challenge to the XSD capability,I have been sending XML files by my clients, which will be having 0 or more undefined or [call] unexpected tags (May appear in hierarchy). Well they are redundant tags for me .. so I have got to ignore their presence, but along with them there are some set of tags which are required to be validated.
This is a sample XML:
<root>
<undefined_1>one</undefined_1>
<undefined_2>two</undefined_2>
<node>to_be_validated</node>
<undefined_3>two</undefined_3>
<undefined_4>two</undefined_4>
</root>
And the XSD I tried with:
<xs:element name="root" type="root"></xs:element>
<xs:complexType name="root">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:any maxOccurs="2" minOccurs="0"/>
<xs:element name="node" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:any maxOccurs="2" minOccurs="0"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType
XSD doesn't allow this, due to certain reasons.
The above mentioned example is just a sample. The practical XML comes with the complex hierarchy of XML tags ..
Kindly let me know if you can get a hack of it.
By the way, The alternative solution is to insert XSL-transformation, before validation process. Well, I am avoiding it because I need to change the .Net code which triggers validation process, which is supported at the least by my company.
