Ignoring Elements in XSD

[Jody Greening]

How do I write a schema that is only validating elements: 1,4,7,8,9 and

ignores every other element? I also need to not to care about the order

of the elements or how many are in between elements that I am trying to

validate.
XML:
<root>
<element1 />
<element2 />
<element3 />
<element4 />
<element5 />
<element6 />
<element7 />
<element8 />
<element9 />
</root>
XSD:
<xs:element name="root">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="element1">
<xs:element name="element4">
<xs:element name="element7">
<xs:element name="element8">
<xs:element name="element9">
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
Basically I need it to ignore ANY elements outside of my Schema
declaration and I may not know where they are located in the XML doc.
Thanks.
Jody

[Zafar Abbas [MSFT]]

If you do not require ALL of the elements defined by your schema to be
present in the instance then you can construct a choice of all these
elements as well as an element wildcard (xs:any) in the content model. Let
me know if you need examples for how to do it.

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How do I write a schema that is only validating elements: 1,4,7,8,9 and

ignores every other element? I also need to not to care about the order

of the elements or how many are in between elements that I am trying to

validate.
XML:
<root>
<element1 />
<element2 />
<element3 />
<element4 />
<element5 />
<element6 />
<element7 />
<element8 />
<element9 />
</root>
XSD:
<xs:element name="root">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="element1">
<xs:element name="element4">
<xs:element name="element7">
<xs:element name="element8">
<xs:element name="element9">
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
Basically I need it to ignore ANY elements outside of my Schema
declaration and I may not know where they are located in the XML doc.
Thanks.
Jody

[Jody Greening]

I do need all of the Elements described in my Schema. :-(

I can't beleive this is so hard to accomplish. The problem is that I
need to validate XML that is used to intergrate with our App, but I am
only concerned with a portion of this XML, and I have absolutely no
control over it.

I have reverted to a custom application for validation that use XPath
and generates a report based on what is found and what is missing.

[Zafar Abbas [MSFT]]

There is no way in Xml Schema to define such a content model where you want
to impose no order and also mandate the occurence of elements and at the
same time allow other elements which should not be validated.

xsd:all is the contruct normally used to construct content model which
contain element without enforcing any order. But an xsd:all can not contain
an element wildcard (xsd:any), so you do not have the option to not validate
any element.

You could construct a <xsd:choice> containing an element wildcard, as well
as define all elements that you want, and let your application do the
checking that all mandatory elements occur atleast once.

Zafar
"Jody Greening" <jo**********@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I do need all of the Elements described in my Schema. :-(

I can't beleive this is so hard to accomplish. The problem is that I
need to validate XML that is used to intergrate with our App, but I am
only concerned with a portion of this XML, and I have absolutely no
control over it.

I have reverted to a custom application for validation that use XPath
and generates a report based on what is found and what is missing.