lesson5: XSD Complex elements

msi_333 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:36 pm

XSD Complex elements :

XSD Complex element contains other elements and attributes .

How to define complex elements:

For example the following XML file:

Code:

<student>
<name>Jozef samir</name>
<age>32</age>
</student>

<xs:element name="student">
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:element name="age" type="xs:long"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

You define it by another way:

Code:

<xs:element name="student" type="studentType" >
  <xs:complexType name="studentType" >
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:element name="age" type="xs:long"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>

The difference between the two ways, in the first method you can only create one element of this complex type, but in the second way, you can define many elements using the same type.
For example :

Code:

<xs:element name="student" type="studentType" >
<xs:element name=" professor  " type="studentType" >


  <xs:complexType name="studentType" >
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:element name="age" type="xs:long"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
 

Note: <xs:sequence> Tag means element should appear in same order in XML document.

2. XSD Complex Type extension:
You can extends the complex type and add more elements to it.

Code:

<xs:element name="student" type="studentType" >
  <xs:complexType name="studentType" >
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:element name="age" type="xs:long"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>

<xs:complexType name="moreinfo">
  <xs:complexContent>
    <xs:extension base="studentType">
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="address" type="xs:string"/>
        <xs:element name="city" type="xs:string"/>
        <xs:element name="country" type="xs:string"/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:extension>
  </xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>

lesson5: XSD Complex elements

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