Question about XML-Schema choice structure.

[GB]

If I define the following schema which allows either a tag element OR an tag and origin_system elements I get an error. Same thing happens when I use groups. Is this because tag is defined twice? My reading of the XML-Schema spec seems to suggest that the schema is valid & that Xerces is in error.

I get the error with Java Xerces 2.3.0 but not with C++ Xerces 1.7.0.

Can anyone explain?

Here's the error...

error [4,16] cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content starting with element 'origin_system'. The content must match '((("":tag))|(("":tag),(""rigin_system)))'.

Here's the schema....

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<xsd:element name="fx" type="fx_type"/>

<xsd:complexType name="fx_type">
<xsd:choice>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="tag" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/> </xsd:sequence> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="tag" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/> <xsd:element name="origin_system" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:choice> </xsd:complexType>

</xsd:schema>

Heres the XML...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fx>
<tag>$0000000002275ABD</tag>
<origin_system>PAB</origin_system>
</fx>

 

[Eric Sirois]

Hello,

The reason that Xerces is giving you an error it that it cannot determine whether or not the element <tag> belongs to the first or second sequence.

Try the following
<sequence>
<element name="tag" />
<element name="origin_system" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/> <sequence>

So, fx_type can simply have a <tag> element or <tag> and <origin_systemt>, but tag must appear first in the XML document.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards
Eric

GB wrote:

If I define the following schema which allows either a tag element OR an tag and origin_system elements I get an error. Same thing happens when I use groups. Is this because tag is defined twice? My reading of the XML-Schema spec seems to suggest that the schema is valid & that Xerces is in error.

I get the error with Java Xerces 2.3.0 but not with C++ Xerces 1.7.0.

Can anyone explain?

Here's the error...

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