XML schemas, including arbitrary elements

[Laurens]

Hi,


I'm writing an XML schema for a format that should allow entire XSL
stylesheets to be embedded within a particular element.

Example:

<cxl xmlns="http://www.mynamespace.com/"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<document>
<name>My document</name>
<transform pattern=".*\.xml">
<xsl:stylesheet>
<!-- Stylesheet -->
</xsl:stylesheet>
</transform>
</document>
</cxl>

Now there are two problems:

1) My input documents must be validated against a schema.
2) There is no schema for XSL.

I've looked at <xsd:any> but "any" elements still have to be declared in
another schema.

Basically what I want is for validation to be temporarily "suspended" within
particular elements, so as to allow inclusion of structures for which there
is no schema. Is this possible?


Thanks
-Laurens

 

[Martin Honnen]

I'm writing an XML schema for a format that should allow entire XSL
stylesheets to be embedded within a particular element.

Example:

<cxl xmlns="http://www.mynamespace.com/"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<document>
<name>My document</name>
<transform pattern=".*\.xml">
<xsl:stylesheet>
<!-- Stylesheet -->
</xsl:stylesheet>
</transform>
</document>
</cxl>

Now there are two problems:

1) My input documents must be validated against a schema.
2) There is no schema for XSL.

I've looked at <xsd:any> but "any" elements still have to be declared in
another schema.

No, you can specify
<xsd:any processContents="skip"
which then means the parsers skips the content when validating.
Or you can use
<xsd:any processContents="lax"
to let the parser validate the content if a schema is present and
otherwise skip the content.

 

[Laurens]

No, you can specify
<xsd:any processContents="skip"
which then means the parsers skips the content when validating.
Or you can use
<xsd:any processContents="lax"
to let the parser validate the content if a schema is present and
otherwise skip the content.

OK, thanks! I didn't know about processContents. (I'm a Schema newbie and it
shows.) Will try this out.

Thanks again
-Laurens