Re: [xml-dev] Best options for converting JSON to XML

[John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 9:59 AM, David Lee <dlee@calldei.com> wrote:

"For every member element with an attribute named 'name' with a value "a json name" it must have a single child
element "value" with a "type" attribute  with the value "Number" and its text contents must follow the constraints of xs:decimal

This is difficult or impossible to express in common XML schema languages

It's straightforward in RNG.  Compact syntax version:

define a-json-name = element * {

  attribute name { "a json name" },

  element value {

    attribute type { "Number"},

    xs:decimal

  }

}

It's really only DTDs and XSD 1.0 that can't cope with this sort of thing.

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