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ventaI'm writing My First XML Schema... it's for a very simple family of XML documents which someone else has defined by saying "yes, well, it's all fairly self-explanatory".
(He's right, it is, though documenting that is actually quite hard.)
However, there is anelephantelement whose value is an ASN.1 GeneralizedTime. How do I express in the schema that that should be the case ?
I can do:
<element name="partyTime" type="xsd:dateTime" minOccurs="0"/>
... but that's not the same thing. How do I refer to ASN.1 entities from inside an XML schema ? ASN.1 does provide a method to encode GeneralizedTime objects into xsd:dateTime format, but I can't see how that's useful.
Or do I just call a GeneralizedTime a string and have done with it?
(He's right, it is, though documenting that is actually quite hard.)
However, there is an
I can do:
<element name="partyTime" type="xsd:dateTime" minOccurs="0"/>
... but that's not the same thing. How do I refer to ASN.1 entities from inside an XML schema ? ASN.1 does provide a method to encode GeneralizedTime objects into xsd:dateTime format, but I can't see how that's useful.
Or do I just call a GeneralizedTime a string and have done with it?
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Thank you
Date: 2008-09-10 09:22 pm (UTC)I'll have a look tomorrow at the PDF you linked to - it looked like it might take me a while to wade through it, so I figure I'll do it on work's time not my own.
(Tomorrow's other problem is to work out why efforts on my part to validate an example file against the schema fail with mysterious error messages :)