Does anyone know if an XSD can define tags that match a pattern? I
know I can setup restrictions on the values of a tag, but I want to
control the tag names themselves. For example, I would like this to
validate against my XSD (the child tags are required to start with
"var-" but can end in anything):

<some-parent>
<var-FOO>value</var-FOO>
<var-BAR>value</var-BAR>
</some-parent>

So this one would be no good:

<some-parent>
<FOO>value</FOO>
<va-BAR>value</va-BAR>
</some-parent>

There must be a way to do this, I just can't find it anywhere...
Thanks in advance for the help!

zmunkz wrote:

Does anyone know if an XSD can define tags that match a pattern? I
know I can setup restrictions on the values of a tag, but I want to
control the tag names themselves. For example, I would like this to
validate against my XSD (the child tags are required to start with
"var-" but can end in anything):
>
<some-parent>
<var-FOO>value</var-FOO>
<var-BAR>value</var-BAR>
</some-parent>
>
So this one would be no good:
>
<some-parent>
<FOO>value</FOO>
<va-BAR>value</va-BAR>
</some-parent>
>
There must be a way to do this, I just can't find it anywhere...

No, that is not possible with the W3C XML schema language.


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