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Re: xml schema - validation of ip address against netmask

• To: Saurabh Arora <tanish2k@g...>
• Subject: Re: xml schema - validation of ip address against netmask
• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:29:21 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <43D745EA.7080802@g...>

> I am trying to validate the ip address of an interface (as an element 
> under the Schema definition) against the netmask value(as an attribute) 
:

You cannot do this in XML Schema, because it doesn't have a mechanism to 
say that the content/type of one part of a document affects the 
content/type of another part.  (Often described as co-occurrence 
constraints, and not possible in XSD.)  There are other schema languages 
that let you do that kind of thing.  But even then you will have a problem 
because they typically only do regular-expression kinds of constraints, 
and doing that kind of validation with a set of regexps might not even be 
possible.

And then, finally, you almost definitely want CIDR not old-fashioned 
network classes anyway. :)

        /r$

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SOA Appliance Group
IBM Application Integration Middleware

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