Thanks for the tip.  I'll try something along that angle

"Stan Kitsis [MSFT]" wrote:

> There is no built-in mechanism that does this type of verification.  There 
> might be workarounds depending on what you're trying to do.  Here's one 
> idea.  If your setting elements are in a sequence under the same parent, set 
> minOccurs to the total number of entries you want and use a uniqueness 
> constraint to make sure they are all different.
> 
> <xs:element name="parent">
>     <xs:complexType
>         <xs:sequence
>             <xs:element name="setting" minOccurs="10" maxOccurs="10">
>                 ...
>             </xs:element>
>         </xs:sequence>
>     </xs:complexType>
>     <xs:unique  ...>
>         ...
>     </xs:unique>
> </xs:element>
> 
> Of course, this doesn't work if you want to allow multiple settings with the 
> same name.
> 
> -- 
> Stan Kitsis
> Program Manager, XML Tools & Technologies
> Microsoft Corporation
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> "J Mon" <JMon@d...> wrote in message 
> news:975E221B-BC4B-42B9-B520-D45AA5E2F425@m......
> > Hi I am trying to set up my XML Schema to validate my XML files to check 
> > that
> > the necessary settings are all there.  I have an element called <setting>
> > which has attribute "name".  I want to make sure that all the required 
> > names
> > exist in the document.
> >
> > I've tried using this:
> > <xs:element name="setting" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
> > <xs:complexType>
> >  <xs:attribute name="name" type="string" form="unqualified" 
> > use="required">
> >     <xs:simpleType>
> >        <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
> > <xs:enumeration value="ConnectionString"></xs:enumeration> <xs:enumeration
> > value="LocalisationConnString"></xs:enumeration>
> > <xs:enumeration value="FeedListSupported"></xs:enumeration>
> >                 ...etc...
> >        </xs:restriction>
> >      </xs:simpleType>
> >    </xs:attribute>
> > </xs:complexType>
> > </xs:element>
> >
> > This ensures that the correct values for the setting name's are used;
> > however it doesn't ensure that EVERY ONE is used.  Is there a way to 
> > validate
> > for this? 
> 
> 
>