Verifying the contents with key, keyref

[koch.henning]

Hello,

I have some sort of problem with verifying the contents of my
xml-document.
I have a xml-scheme like this...

<xs:complexTy pe name="abcType">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="elementA" type="elementAT ype"/>
<xs:element name="elementB" type="elementBT ype"/>
<xs:element name="elementC" type="elementCT ype"/>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="ID" type="xs:string "/>
</xs:complexType>

This abcType has an Attribute ID. And each of these elementA,B,C-Types
has
Subelements. Now I want to verify some things in the xml-document
with the key-, keyref-Elements.
I want to get only the some special sub-elements of elementBType.

I tried something like this:

<xs:element name="abc" type="abcType">

<xs:key name="IDKey">
<xs:selector xpath=".//elementB/specialSubEleme ntB"/>
<xs:field xpath="@ID"/>
</xs:key>

This way I get the sub-elements of TypeB, but the Problem is, that the
ID is in TypeB not in its
sub-Elements.
The problem is, that I can't refer the parent-element to the ID
Normally you could write something like this:
xpath=".//elementB/[specialSubEleme ntB]"/ so only the elements are
taken, who have the subElementB. But this doesn't seem to work. I tried
it in Avolta XML-Spy with the "Evaluate Path" and gave him the command
with the brackets (xpath=".//elementB/[specialSubEleme ntB]"/) and the
correct elements were selected but in the selector-element this doesn't
seem to work.

I could move the ID-Attribute to each subElement-Type, but it would be
much better for my scheme if I would leave it at the parent-element
abcType.
Are the any work-arounds or does anybody know a solution for this
problem?

Any help would be appreciated,
thanks...
Henning.

[Stan Kitsis [MSFT]]

Hi Henning,

All xpath attributes should use namespace when referring to elements.

<xs:schema .... targetNamespace ="myTargetNames pace"
xmlns:myNS="myT argetNamespace" xmlns="myTarget Namespace"...>

<xs:selector xpath=".//myNS:elementB/myNS:specialSub ElementB"/>

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Program Manager, XML Technologies
Microsoft Corporation

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Hello,

I have some sort of problem with verifying the contents of my
xml-document.
I have a xml-scheme like this...

<xs:complexTy pe name="abcType">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="elementA" type="elementAT ype"/>
<xs:element name="elementB" type="elementBT ype"/>
<xs:element name="elementC" type="elementCT ype"/>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="ID" type="xs:string "/>
</xs:complexType>

This abcType has an Attribute ID. And each of these elementA,B,C-Types
has
Subelements. Now I want to verify some things in the xml-document
with the key-, keyref-Elements.
I want to get only the some special sub-elements of elementBType.

I tried something like this:

<xs:element name="abc" type="abcType">

<xs:key name="IDKey">
<xs:selector xpath=".//elementB/specialSubEleme ntB"/>
<xs:field xpath="@ID"/>
</xs:key>

This way I get the sub-elements of TypeB, but the Problem is, that the
ID is in TypeB not in its
sub-Elements.
The problem is, that I can't refer the parent-element to the ID
Normally you could write something like this:
xpath=".//elementB/[specialSubEleme ntB]"/ so only the elements are
taken, who have the subElementB. But this doesn't seem to work. I tried
it in Avolta XML-Spy with the "Evaluate Path" and gave him the command
with the brackets (xpath=".//elementB/[specialSubEleme ntB]"/) and the
correct elements were selected but in the selector-element this doesn't
seem to work.

I could move the ID-Attribute to each subElement-Type, but it would be
much better for my scheme if I would leave it at the parent-element
abcType.
Are the any work-arounds or does anybody know a solution for this
problem?

Any help would be appreciated,
thanks...
Henning.