Chapter 01: Schemas: An introduction¶

Schema

<!--Definitive XML Schema by Priscilla Walmsley (c) 2012 Prentice Hall PTR -->
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xsd:element name="product" type="ProductType"/>
  <xsd:complexType name="ProductType">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="number" type="xsd:integer"/>
      <xsd:element name="size" type="SizeType"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:attribute name="effDate" type="xsd:date"/>
  </xsd:complexType>
  <xsd:simpleType name="SizeType">
    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:integer">
      <xsd:minInclusive value="2"/>
      <xsd:maxInclusive value="18"/>
    </xsd:restriction>
  </xsd:simpleType>
</xsd:schema>

XML Document

<product effDate="2001-04-02"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="chapter01.xsd">
  <number>557</number>
  <size>10</size>
</product>

xsData XML Document

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<product effDate="2001-04-02">
  <number>557</number>
  <size>10</size>
</product>

xsData JSON

{
    "number": 557,
    "size": 10,
    "eff_date": "2001-04-02"
}

Samples Source