complexType in Xml Schema

[Peter Theill]

Hi,

I'm trying to build an element which will allow Xml such as:

<location type="home">
<AddressLine1>xyz</AddressLine1>
</location>

<location type="work url">
<Url>http://xyz/</Url>
</location>

The content of the location node should allow anything so I'm trying to use
xsd:anyType. I've defined this complex type:

<xsd:complexType name="location">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="xsd:anyType">
<xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
</xsd:extension>
</xsd:complexContent>
</xsd:complexType>

However my schema validator (XmlSchemaSet class of the .NET 2.0 frameworK)
can't validate and tells me "The derived type and the base type must have
the same content type.". What do I miss?

 

[Martin Honnen]

Peter Theill wrote:

I'm trying to build an element which will allow Xml such as:

<location type="home">
<AddressLine1>xyz</AddressLine1>
</location>

<location type="work url">
<Url>http://xyz/</Url>
</location>

The content of the location node should allow anything so I'm trying to use
xsd:anyType. I've defined this complex type:

<xsd:complexType name="location">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="xsd:anyType">
<xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
</xsd:extension>
</xsd:complexContent>
</xsd:complexType>

However my schema validator (XmlSchemaSet class of the .NET 2.0 frameworK)
can't validate and tells me "The derived type and the base type must have
the same content type.". What do I miss?

Why can't you use
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any />
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute ... />
</xsd:complexType>
that is the proper way I think, you can then also decide whether to have
precessContents="lax" or processContents="skip" on the xsd:any element.

 

[Peter Theill]

that is the proper way I think, you can then also decide whether to have

precessContents="lax" or processContents="skip" on the xsd:any element.

Thanks Martin, that was exactly what I was looking for. Now my validator is
able to process the file just fine.

Rgd,
Peter Theill