XSD files

markpb

I'm working with a set of XML files in an app and I'd like to validate them against an XSD (which I have to prepare). The only problem is that the names in the tags aren't constant, the attributes are. Is there any way to do this in XSD?

For example
<protocol1 ID="1" Action="Action1">
<Name ID="1" type="String">Mark</Name>
<Age ID="2" type="Int">30</Name>
</protocol1>

The next XML file will look something similar but the tag names will differ. Basically I want to check that my XML looks like this

<{any} ID/Int Action/string>
<{any} ID/Int type/String /> <-- this is a sequence
</{/any}

Thanks!

stevenmu

I don't think so. Can you reform your XML so that your tag name is actually an attribute? For e.g.

<entity type="protocol1" ID="1" Action="Action1">
<property type="Name" ID="1" type="String">Mark</property>
<property type="Age" ID="2" type="Int">30</property>
</entity>

markpb

I'd rather avoid changing the format of the file if I can help it. It's a pity that XSD can't do what I want, I guess I'll have to roll my own Thanks though!