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RE: Problem using xs:any

• To: <Nadia.Swaby@p...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Problem using xs:any
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:50:31 -0000
• In-reply-to: <OFD1D53B1A.8B03BEAB-ON852570CE.006971D3-852570CE.006A0662@p...>
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In XML schemas, unlike in instance documents, attributes are always defined
*after* the child elements.

No idea who thought of this wonderful bit of ergonomic design, but that's
the way it works.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nadia.Swaby@p... [mailto:Nadia.Swaby@p...] 
> Sent: 05 December 2005 19:18
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  Problem using xs:any
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an element definition in my Schema as follows:
> 
> <xs:element name="description" minOccurs="0">
>                   <xs:complexType mixed="true">
>                         <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##any"
> processContents="skip"/>
>                         <xs:sequence>
>                               <xs:any minOccurs="0" 
> maxOccurs="unbounded"
> processContents="skip"/>
>                         </xs:sequence>
>                   </xs:complexType>
>             </xs:element>
> 
> When I try to validate the schema is Stylus Studio Enterprise 
> 6, I get the
> following error message:
> 
> file:///d:/My Documents/Xml/XQuery 
> Tutorial/Auction/actionschema.xsd:65,18:
> Invalid child 'sequence' in the complex type
> 
> The XML document actionschema.xsd is NOT valid (1 errors)
> 
> I looked up the use of xs:any in the Wrox's Professional XML 
> Schema book,
> and my code is the same as the example in that book?
> 
> How do I use xs:any correctly?
> 
> 
> Nadia
> 
> 
> 
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