Validate against schema, but ignore the rest

[Andy]

Hello All!

Is there any way to validate XML document agains schema, but at the
same time ignore any attributes or elements that are not specified in
schema?

Example:
<Customer>
<LastName></LastName>
<FirstName></FirstName>
<Age></Age>
<AnyNode/>
</Customer >

Assume that schema only define LastName, and FirstName.
How can Age be ignored without knowing that it is Age?
How can AnyNode be ignored?

Thank you

[Martin Honnen]

Andy wrote:

Is there any way to validate XML document agains schema, but at the
same time ignore any attributes or elements that are not specified in
schema?

Example:
<Customer>
<LastName></LastName>
<FirstName></FirstName>
<Age></Age>
<AnyNode/>
</Customer >

Assume that schema only define LastName, and FirstName.
How can Age be ignored without knowing that it is Age?
How can AnyNode be ignored?

Here is a schema that specifies that <Customer> is a sequence of
<LastName>, <FirstName> and an unspecified number of elements that are
skipped during validation:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<xs:element name="Customer">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="LastName" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="FirstName" type="xs:string" />
<xs:any processContents="skip" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

</xs:schema>
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/