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Xsd.exe tool issue

John
1/28/2005 1:23:04 PM

dotnet xml: I have a xml file that I want to take it as xsd.exe's input to create schema
file. When I do xsd sample.xml, I got error,
Error: There was an error processing 'sample.xml'.
- The same table (element) cannot be the child table in two nested
relations.

However, I read WSC xml specification, it meets the standard. Someone can
help to tell me what is the problem?

Thanks lot!
John

Following is the XMl file simple.xml is,
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xs:Data xmlns:xs="http://www.test.com/Data/">
<xs:all>
<xs:element ref="cats"/>
<xs:element ref="dogs"/>
</xs:all>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:choice>
<xs:element ref="left"/>
<xs:element ref="right"/>
</xs:choice>
<xs:element ref="landmark"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:Data>

RE: Xsd.exe tool issue

Christoph Schittko [MVP]
1/31/2005 11:51:04 AM

John,

This question comes up quite frequently. You can search for responses
through http://groups.google.com or http://www.dotnet247.com.

The short answer is, yes, your schema is probably W3C XML Schema compliant
and no, XSD.exe cannot infer a schema. As the error message says, the tool
doesn't process XML documents with recursive content, such as:

<root>
<child>
<child>bla</child>
</child>
</root>

You may want to try the schema inference tool at
http://apps.gotdotnet.com/xmltools/xsdinference/ or comment out the recursive
content and add it back to the generated schema by hand.

HTH,
Christoph Schittko
MVP XML
http://weblogs.asp.net/cschittko

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