Schema: element may have "any" content?

[Lord0]

Hi there,

How do I define in a schema that an element (<element>) may have any
content i.e. text, other elements, partial elements, angle brackets
etc?

So all of the following would be valid:

<element>
aaaaaaa<foo/>bbbbbb<bar/>cccccc
</element>

<element>
aaaaaaa<foo>bbbbbb<bar>cccccc
</element>

<element>
<foobbbbbbb<bar>cccccccc
</element>

etd

So I basically would like to tell the parser, via the schema, to ignore
anything between the opening and closing <element> tags

Lord0

 

[Lord0]

I should say that I got as far as this:

<element name="element" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<complexType mixed="true">
<sequence>
<any minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"
processContents="skip"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>

But this obviously still tried to "parse" incomplete elements contained
within the element tag.

 

[Martin Honnen]

Hi there,

How do I define in a schema that an element (<element>) may have any
content i.e. text, other elements, partial elements, angle brackets
etc?

So all of the following would be valid:

<element>
aaaaaaa<foo/>bbbbbb<bar/>cccccc
</element>

<element>
aaaaaaa<foo>bbbbbb<bar>cccccc

The content has to be well-formed before you can talk about validity at
all so having a <foo> start tag but not closing </foo> is not possible.

</element>

<element>
<foobbbbbbb<bar>cccccccc

Same here, the contents has to be well-formed.

</element>

So I basically would like to tell the parser, via the schema, to ignore
anything between the opening and closing <element> tags

The content has to be well-formed, the parser will not ignore
well-formedness constraints.

As for not doing validation of the contents, look into xs:any and
processContents="skip":

<xs:element name="element" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType mixed="true">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:any processContents="skip" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

 

[Richard Tobin]

So I basically would like to tell the parser, via the schema, to ignore
anything between the opening and closing <element> tags

You can't. Schemas operate on documents that have already been
parsed. All you can do is add constraints to well-formed XML,
not remove them.

-- Richard

 

[Lord0]

"You can't. Schemas operate on documents that have already been
parsed."

Damn - I suspected as much!

BTW Richard how's the Text Mining/PDF parsing etc etc going with
Cognia?

 

[Manuel Collado]

Lord0 escribió:

"You can't. Schemas operate on documents that have already been
parsed."

Damn - I suspected as much!

Have you considered using CDATA sections? Its content is not parsed.

 

[Joe Kesselman]

Have you considered using CDATA sections? Its content is not parsed.

Generally bad practice.