Problem designing xsd schema - because of a variable element name
- by ssaboum
Hi everyone,
i'm not the best at creating XSD schema as this is actually my first one,
i would like to validate an xml that must look like this :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Data>
<FIELD name='toto'>
<META mono='false' dynamic='false'>
<COLUMN1>
<REFTABLE>table</REFTABLE>
<REFCOLUMN>key_column</REFCOLUMN>
<REFLABELCOLUMN>test_column</REFLABELCOLUMN>
</COLUMN1>
<COLUMN2>
<REFTABLE>table</REFTABLE>
<REFCOLUMN>key_column</REFCOLUMN>
<REFLABELCOLUMN>test_column</REFLABELCOLUMN>
</COLUMN2>
</META>
<VALUEs>
<VALUE>...</VALUE>
</VALUEs>
</FIELD>
My problem is that into the META block the tags "COLUMN1","COLUMN2" are always different, it may become COLUMNxxx. For now my schema is :
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:element name="Data">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="FIELD" type="Field" />
</xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:int" use="required" />
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
<xsd:complexType name="dataSourceDef">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="DSD_REFTABLE" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:element name="DSD_REFCOLUMN" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:element name="DSD_REFLABELCOLUMN" type="xsd:string" />
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="MetaTag">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any processContents="lax" />
</xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="mono" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="dynamic" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="Field">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="META" type="MetaTag" minOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="VALUEs">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any processContents="lax" />
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>
And i just can't get it to work, i don't know how to handle the fact that a precise level of my nodes isn't clear, and the rest is.
Would you help me please ?
thx
