[thelist] xml scema confusion
Matt Warden
mwarden at gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 13:12:29 CDT 2009
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Simon Watkins<handymanorama at gmail.com> wrote:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <locations>
> <location>
> <placename>Somewhere</placename>
> <latitude>50.123456</latitude>
> <longitude>-2.123456</longitude>
> </location>
...
> Each location must have a placename, and can optionally have a latitude and
> longitude. Obviously if it has one it has to have the other. It seems
> logical to me to validate it against something like this, which has a choice
> of a sequence, or merely an element:
I'm guessing you aren't able to change the XML structure, right? The
real problem is that the combination of lat+long is a single element
of a location in this context, describing its point on the coordinate
map. The XML above indicates they are two different elements, and
that's why you're having trouble.
Would suggest:
location > placename
location > coordinatepoint > latitude
location > coordinatepoint > longitude
Then, placename is required, coordinatepoint is optional, latitude and
longitude are required.
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