XSD: ways to deal with conditionals on attribute value?

[Piper707]

Hi,

I need to generate an XML file for the result which differs based on
the value of a "status" attribute.

i.e for an error condition it would look something like this:

<result status="failure">
<errorBlock>
</result>

a success condition (an empty result block):

<result status="success">
</result>

I understand that XSD does not support conditional processing based on
the value of an attribute.

One way would be to have a tag called "failure" or "success" itself in
the body of the <result>, but then having an empty element seems
wasteful. I would like to have an atribute to do the same thing.

How does one deal with situations like these?

Thanks fo any help
Rohit.

 

[Zafar Abbas]

You will have to write application code on top of XSD validation to process
pass/fail values of the status attribute.
You could also consider using Schematron in this situtation. XSD does not
provide any help here.