I have to implement a SOAP web service that conforms to a (large) standard schema for the travel industry. Here's an example .XSD file: http://www.opentravel.org/2008B/OTA_HotelAvailRQ.xsd I think that rules out simply putting a [WebMethod] attribute to a method. How do you recommend implementing an existing schema using C#? PS: I'm u...
I'm developing a custom XML schema for communicating data between application components. What do the SO folks consider a good (or, ideally, best) practice for selecting the URI for the namespace? Why? Some basic consideration: Our product has many components, and it's probably a good idea if the namespace indicates which component w...
How can I create one XML Schema that will work with multiple but similar XML files. For instance, for a Food Recipes website I have a recipe XML called 'dessert' another 'indian' and another 'vegetarian', they are all pretty much the same, the only thing that changes is the root element. Here's an example of a file: <?xml version="1.0" ...
I've been working with a lot of semi-complicated XSD's lately and am wondering: What are some of the better tools for working with XML schema? Are there any graphical tools? Standalone or Eclipse-based are ideal as we aren't a .net shop. ...
I have an attributeGroup defined in my XSD schema. From what I've read and tried out, there is no way I could specify the optionality of the usage of whole group (so that either all of the attributes are specified, or none), something like: <xs:attributeGroup name="NameDesc"> <xs:attribute name="n" type="xs:string" use="required"/>...
Hi, I have a document with a bunch of elements under a single root element which has a few elements I care about, and want to validate; but those elements may occur anywhere in the document. There are also other elements that I don't want to validate; I don't care if they're there or what's in 'em. I tried the obvious thing, an XSD wi...
I have a schema, and I have a document. I want to allow insertion of an xml fragment into that document, but, it must be valid according to the schema. Is it possible to do this in C#? ...
What's wrong with this xml schema? It doesn't parse correctly, and I can't realize a hierarchy between cluster(element)->host(element)->Load(element). <?xml version="1.0"?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:element name="cluster"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="host"/> ...
I'd like to explore and possibly use (reuse) open XML formats/schemes (DTD/XSD) for drug (medication) prescription documents (Rx) issued by medical doctors and later processed by licenced pharmacists and health insurance companies. Is there any such freely XSD available and what I have to take care when considering and incorporating int...
I'm working with some xml 'snippets' that form elements down the xml. I have the schema but I cannot validate these files because they are not complete xml documents. These snippets are wrapped with the necessary parent elements to form valid xml when they are used in other tools so I don't have much option in making them into valid xml ...
Hi, I've always understood XMLSchemas and DTDs to be equivalent but that the latter is more cumbersome to use when modeling complex relationships (like inheritance). Recently I wanted to build a schema to validate documents that have a structure like this: <data> <array> <int></int> <int></int> </array> </array> <float><...
Hi, I'm validating against XMLSchema in Java, and getting SAXParseExceptions thrown when I have non-valid content models. I'm going to be using these exceptions to highlight where the validation has failed - but the SAXParseExceptions seem to be a little too low-level. For example, for a failure on an enumeration, I get the validity e...
Is it legal to use no targetNamespace attribute or an empty one in an Xml schema? If so then what does it mean, are we "adding" something to the "empty namespace" (which always exists) or creating an "anonymous namespace" which is not related to other schemas? How would an instance xml document look like, do elements need to be explici...
Essentially I want to embed some XHTML in an XML document that must validate against a custom schema. Full background: I have a webservice that consumes an XML document. This XML document is validated against a custom schema. The data in the XML is parsed and stored in a database, and displayed in a useful format on a website. The cus...
I'd like to be able generate an xsd of my MSSQL database's structure. Are there any tools or libraries that help me to this? The VS designer for typed datasets come's close, but I'm looking for a programmatic approach. ...
I have a table with an XML column. The documents are pretty large and numerous, and I've been trying various ways to improve the performance of basic queries. Because the documentation indicates that applying an XML Schema to the column can help SQL Server to optimize queries — and because one was available — I created a schema collect...
Hello, I'm trying to create an element in a schema where its sub-types can appear in any order and as many times as necessary: <xs:element name="workflowNodes"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxPO> <xs:element ref="nodeType1" /> <xs:element ref="nodeType2" /> <xs:element ref="nodeType3" /> <xs:element r...
Hi, I found a few tools on the web which generate XML Schema for a given XML data instance. Something like - link text I'm also thinking of developing one, but I'm kind of confused with the evaluation of the generated schema. How can the schema generated be evaluated i.e. the schema generated confirms to the given data? Is there any ...
I need to add some tags to an existing XML schema and write it to file. However, I need to add tags to every of the existing schema. What is the best way to accomplish it in C#? Thanks! I have the following code that parses the schema: /// <summary> /// Iterates over all elements in a XmlSchema and prints them out ...
I've been looking at this issue for too long. I suspect I'm missing something obvious because I'm overfamiliar with it. I have a schema that suffers from a unique particle violation error. I can see why but I've spent too long fiddling with it to be able to step back and solve the problem. How do I phrase this schema so that it can va...