Access XmlSchema properties?

[Chris]

I'd like to be able to access the elements in an XSD/XmlSchema object to
determine things like the datatype. Can this be done without explicitly
running validation on a document? Can I programatically access the elements
via an XmlSchema object to determine datatype (or other properties)?

The motivation behind this is that I'm constructing an XML document node by
node and as the values come in, I'd like to check their data type before they
are added and raise an exception at that point as opposed to after the node
has been added and running validation.

[Martin Honnen]

Chris wrote:

I'd like to be able to access the elements in an XSD/XmlSchema object to
determine things like the datatype. Can this be done without explicitly
running validation on a document? Can I programatically access the elements
via an XmlSchema object to determine datatype (or other properties)?

You can load and compile a schema and it has properties like Elements to
access the elements in the schema
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlSchemaXmlSchemaClassElementsTopic.as p>
and the SchemaTypes property for the types in the schema
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlSchemaXmlSchemaClassSchemaTypesTopic .asp>

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Chris]

And I also just realized, since the XSD file is valid XML, I could just load
it as an XML file (not XmlSchema) and access the elements via XPath. Doh.

One of those methods will get me where I want. Thank you.

Chris

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

Chris wrote:

I'd like to be able to access the elements in an XSD/XmlSchema object to
determine things like the datatype. Can this be done without explicitly
running validation on a document? Can I programatically access the elements
via an XmlSchema object to determine datatype (or other properties)?

You can load and compile a schema and it has properties like Elements to
access the elements in the schema
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlSchemaXmlSchemaClassElementsTopic.as p>
and the SchemaTypes property for the types in the schema
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlSchemaXmlSchemaClassSchemaTypesTopic .asp>

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/