xml schema design

I have an xml schema that I am working on. I wanted to know if it was a
normal thing to do something like this:

1. Have a ZipCode simple type that has to be 5 characters long.
2. Have a StateCode simple type that has to be 2 characters long.
3. Have an Address complex type that has:
- Street (string)
- City (sgring)
- State (StateCode) [noted in item 2 above]
- ZipCode (ZipCode) [noted in item 1 above]
4. Have a Venue complex type that has the following:
- Name (string)
- Address (Address) [noted in item 3 above]
- PhoneNumber (string)
5. Have an element that can contain only 1 instance of the Venue complex
type.

Martin Honnen

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March 27th, 2008
12:35 PM
#2

Re: xml schema design

Andy B wrote:

Quote:

I have an xml schema that I am working on. I wanted to know if it was a
normal thing to do something like this:
>
1. Have a ZipCode simple type that has to be 5 characters long.
2. Have a StateCode simple type that has to be 2 characters long.
3. Have an Address complex type that has:
- Street (string)
- City (sgring)
- State (StateCode) [noted in item 2 above]
- ZipCode (ZipCode) [noted in item 1 above]
4. Have a Venue complex type that has the following:
- Name (string)
- Address (Address) [noted in item 3 above]
- PhoneNumber (string)
5. Have an element that can contain only 1 instance of the Venue complex
type.

Sounds fine to me, you might additionally restrict zip code to five
digits, enumerate the possible state codes.

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Andy B

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March 27th, 2008
02:45 PM
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Re: xml schema design

Sounds fine to me, you might additionally restrict zip code to five

Quote:

digits, enumerate the possible state codes.

I forgot about the fact that I had ZipCode set to require 5 characters. I
want to make this a 5 digit number but cant find a length property for the
int or integer data type. How would I fix this? I have it set to ZipCode
(string) - length=5. You also said to make an enum for the state codes. How
exactly do I do this?

Martin Honnen

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March 27th, 2008
02:55 PM
#4

Re: xml schema design

Andy B wrote:

Quote:

>Sounds fine to me, you might additionally restrict zip code to five
>digits, enumerate the possible state codes.

>
I forgot about the fact that I had ZipCode set to require 5 characters. I
want to make this a 5 digit number but cant find a length property for the
int or integer data type. How would I fix this? I have it set to ZipCode
(string) - length=5. You also said to make an enum for the state codes. How
exactly do I do this?

Straight from <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/is this example:

<xsd:simpleType name="USState">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
<xsd:enumeration value="AK"/>
<xsd:enumeration value="AL"/>
<xsd:enumeration value="AR"/>

</xsd:restriction>
</xsd:simpleType>

As for the zip code, one way is with a regular expression pattern:
<xsd:simpleType name="zipType">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:positiveInteger">
<xsd:pattern value="\d{5}"/>
</xsd:restriction>
</xsl:simpleType>

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Andy B

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March 27th, 2008
06:05 PM
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Re: xml schema design

Why would it be a good idea to do an enum for the state codes instead of
just letting somebody typing it in just a string field?
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Quote:

Andy B wrote:

Quote:

>>Sounds fine to me, you might additionally restrict zip code to five
>>digits, enumerate the possible state codes.

>>
>I forgot about the fact that I had ZipCode set to require 5 characters. I
>want to make this a 5 digit number but cant find a length property for
>the int or integer data type. How would I fix this? I have it set to
>ZipCode (string) - length=5. You also said to make an enum for the state
>codes. How exactly do I do this?

>
Straight from <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/is this example:
>
<xsd:simpleType name="USState">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
<xsd:enumeration value="AK"/>
<xsd:enumeration value="AL"/>
<xsd:enumeration value="AR"/>

</xsd:restriction>
</xsd:simpleType>
>
As for the zip code, one way is with a regular expression pattern:
<xsd:simpleType name="zipType">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:positiveInteger">
<xsd:pattern value="\d{5}"/>
</xsd:restriction>
</xsl:simpleType>
>
>
>
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>
Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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Martin Honnen

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March 27th, 2008
06:15 PM
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Re: xml schema design

Andy B wrote:

Quote:

Why would it be a good idea to do an enum for the state codes instead of
just letting somebody typing it in just a string field?

In terms of the W3C schema language I suggested an _enumeration_ below:

Quote:

><xsd:simpleType name="USState">
> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
> <xsd:enumeration value="AK"/>
> <xsd:enumeration value="AL"/>
> <xsd:enumeration value="AR"/>
> 
> </xsd:restriction>
></xsd:simpleType>

Or are you now talking about a .NET enumeration defined with C# or VB.NET?

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Andy B

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March 27th, 2008
06:55 PM
#7

Re: xml schema design

You have the right thing. Does it do the same thing a c# enum would do?
either restrict the strings that can be used, or make useful names for
meaningless numbers (like a c# enum does)?
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Quote:

Andy B wrote:

Quote:

>Why would it be a good idea to do an enum for the state codes instead of
>just letting somebody typing it in just a string field?

>
In terms of the W3C schema language I suggested an _enumeration_ below:
>

Quote:

>><xsd:simpleType name="USState">
>> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
>> <xsd:enumeration value="AK"/>
>> <xsd:enumeration value="AL"/>
>> <xsd:enumeration value="AR"/>
>> 
>> </xsd:restriction>
>></xsd:simpleType>

>
Or are you now talking about a .NET enumeration defined with C# or VB.NET?
>
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Martin Honnen

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March 28th, 2008
12:05 PM
#8

Re: xml schema design

Andy B wrote:

Quote:

You have the right thing. Does it do the same thing a c# enum would do?
either restrict the strings that can be used, or make useful names for
meaningless numbers (like a c# enum does)?

The simple type I posted is a restriction of xsd:string allowing only
the enumerated string values (e.g. "AK" or "AL") to be used.

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Andy B

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March 28th, 2008
06:05 PM
#9

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Makes sense to me. I added all of the state codes to the schema.

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.dewrote in message
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Quote:

Andy B wrote:

Quote:

>You have the right thing. Does it do the same thing a c# enum would do?
>either restrict the strings that can be used, or make useful names for
>meaningless numbers (like a c# enum does)?

>
The simple type I posted is a restriction of xsd:string allowing only the
enumerated string values (e.g. "AK" or "AL") to be used.
>
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>
Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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