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   Re: [xml-dev] Schema question

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Thanks Melvin, that worked great!

On 7/26/06, Melvin Chin <mc@softoffice.net> wrote:
> How'bout:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsd:schema version="1.0"
>   xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
>   <xsd:element name="root" type="rootType" />
>   <xsd:complexType name="rootType">
>     <xsd:sequence>
>       <xsd:element name="product" maxOccurs="unbounded">
>         <xsd:complexType>
>           <xsd:sequence>
>                 <xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
>                 <xsd:element name="url">
>                   <xsd:complexType>
>                     <xsd:sequence>
>                         <xsd:element name="product" type="xsd:string"/>
>                         <xsd:element name="image" type="xsd:string"/>
>                     </xsd:sequence>
>                   </xsd:complexType>
>                 </xsd:element>
>           </xsd:sequence>
>         </xsd:complexType>
>       </xsd:element>
>     </xsd:sequence>
>   </xsd:complexType>
> </xsd:schema>
>
>
> At 10:25 PM 2006-07-25 -0400, Alex Stankovic wrote:
> >Hello everybody,
> >
> >I have to process a XML document that's looks like this (I don't have
> >a choice in the layout since I'm receiving the document from a third
> >party):
> >
> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> ><root>
> >  <product>
> >    <name>Product name</name>
> >    <url>
> >      <product>http://product.url.com</product>
> >      <image>http://product.image.com</image>
> >    </url>
> >  </product>
> >  <product>
> >    <name>Product name 2</name>
> >    <url>
> >      <product>http://product.url.com</product>
> >      <image>http://product.image.com</image>
> >    </url>
> >  </product>
> ></root>
> >
> >As you can see element name "product" is used as a product container
> >and as the child of url element. I'm not XML expert but I think that's
> >not very smart. How can I write a XSD schema to validate this type of
> >document when an element name can mean two different things? Is it
> >even possible?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Alex
> >
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