Ah, look at that! Thanks for the feedback.

I reconstructed the xsd to use a custom type:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xsd:complexType name="component">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="component" type="component" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:attribute name="type">
      <xsd:simpleType>
        <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
          <xsd:pattern value="\d{3}"/>
        </xsd:restriction>
      </xsd:simpleType>
    </xsd:attribute>
    <xsd:attribute name="serial">
      <xsd:simpleType>
        <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
          <xsd:pattern value="\d{10}"/>
        </xsd:restriction>
      </xsd:simpleType>
    </xsd:attribute>
  </xsd:complexType>

  <xsd:element name="adapter">
    <xsd:complexType>
      <xsd:sequence>
        <xsd:element name="header"/>
        <xsd:element name="components">
          <xsd:complexType>
            <xsd:sequence>
              <xsd:element name="component" type="component"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
          </xsd:complexType>
          <xsd:unique name="componentTypeAndSerial">
            <xsd:selector xpath=".//component"/>
            <xsd:field xpath="@type"/>
            <xsd:field xpath="@serial"/>
          </xsd:unique>
        </xsd:element>
      </xsd:sequence>
    </xsd:complexType>
  </xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>

This seems to work much better.

- Todd.



On 5/17/07, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...> wrote:
> On 5/17/07, Todd Moon <tmrfcm@g...> wrote:
> >
> > (Forgive me if this is a duplicate, Gmail hiccuped for 5 minutes after
> > I hit send. I don't see my message in the Sent folder though)
> >
> > I've been fleshing out my schema. I renamed "part" to "component", and
> > added some unique and pattern validation. ("type" and "serial"
> > together must be unique across all components.)
> >
> > I would appreciate some criticism of my schema's overall construction.
> > Here it is:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
> >   <xsd:element name="header"/>
> >   <xsd:element name="components">
> >     <xsd:complexType>
> >       <xsd:sequence>
> >         <xsd:element ref="component" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> >       </xsd:sequence>
> >     </xsd:complexType>
> >     <xsd:unique name="componentTypeAndSerial">
> >       <xsd:selector xpath=".//component"/>
> >       <xsd:field xpath="@type"/>
> >       <xsd:field xpath="@serial"/>
> >     </xsd:unique>
> >   </xsd:element>
> >   <xsd:element name="component">
> >     <xsd:complexType>
> >       <xsd:sequence>
> >         <xsd:element ref="component" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> >       </xsd:sequence>
> >       <xsd:attribute ref="type"/>
> >       <xsd:attribute ref="serial"/>
> >     </xsd:complexType>
> >   </xsd:element>
> >   <xsd:attribute name="serial">
> >     <xsd:simpleType>
> >       <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
> >         <xsd:pattern value="\d{10}"/>
> >       </xsd:restriction>
> >     </xsd:simpleType>
> >   </xsd:attribute>
> >   <xsd:attribute name="type">
> >     <xsd:simpleType>
> >       <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
> >         <xsd:pattern value="\d{3}"/>
> >       </xsd:restriction>
> >     </xsd:simpleType>
> >   </xsd:attribute>
> >   <xsd:element name="adapter">
> >     <xsd:complexType>
> >       <xsd:sequence>
> >         <xsd:element ref="header"/>
> >         <xsd:element ref="components"/>
> >       </xsd:sequence>
> >     </xsd:complexType>
> >   </xsd:element>
> > </xsd:schema>
> >
> > Here is an example of a valid document:
> >
> > <adapter>
> >   <header>
> >   </header>
> >   <components>
> >     <component type="735" serial="0000000001">
> >       <component type="736" serial="0000000001"/>
> >       <component type="736" serial="0000000002"/>
> >       <component type="740" serial="0000000003"/>
> >     </component>
> >     <component type="735" serial="0000000002">
> >     </component>
> >     <component type="735" serial="0000000003"/>
> >   </components>
> > </adapter>
>
> With global definitions some documents will be valid that you might
> not want, for example an XML document of just <header/> would validate
> using that schema.
>

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