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Uwe Kuhne - 27 Dec 2003 20:27 GMT

I receive a XML file from a customer and want to use a schema for validating
the XML file. What I don't know how to do is, that I want to continue
processing this XML - file no matter if there is an error or not.

e.g. I have an element <Code> which can contain values 1 to 9.

If something else is delivered within the XML file, I want to replace this
wrong value with the default 1.

Is this possible within the schema definition, or do I have to treat this
in my program.

Thanks
Uwe

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Oleg Tkachenko - 28 Dec 2003 08:06 GMT

> I receive a XML file from a customer and want to use a schema for validating
> the XML file. What I don't know how to do is, that I want to continue
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> Is this possible within the schema definition, or do I have to treat this
> in my program.

Validation against schema can tell you whether XML is valid or not.
Basing on that you can "fix" your XML in your code.

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Uwe Kuhne - 28 Dec 2003 14:02 GMT

My hope was that this is possible. I would have prefered to have everything
inside the schema file, to see exactly which values are possible and what
happens if a value is outside a defined range.
For a user of this schema it's not possible to guess what happens inside my
program, if some wrong value is delivered.
But nevertheless thanks for your reply, it prevents me from a time consuming
search on the web.

Cheers Uwe

> > I receive a XML file from a customer and want to use a schema for validating
> > the XML file. What I don't know how to do is, that I want to continue
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> Validation against schema can tell you whether XML is valid or not.
> Basing on that you can "fix" your XML in your code.

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Kevin Yu [MSFT] - 30 Dec 2003 06:59 GMT

Hi Uwe,

Please try to take a look at the DataType Facets. The maxInclusive and
minInclusive property may meet your needs.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/
xsd_ref_9rar.asp

Kevin Yu

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