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I am working on an XML Schema. I want the XML to contain multiple instances of "Manifest Entries" each containing a series of "Entries". In my application I want users to be able to enable or disable certain sets of "Manifest Entries" (they are essentially containers of entries). I would like to add two attributes to each "Manifest Entries", a string TITLE, and a boolean ENABLED.


XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
	<xs:element name="SyncHoundManifest">
		<xs:complexType>
			<xs:sequence>


				<xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="ManifestEntries" >
					<xs:complexType>

						<xs:sequence>
							<xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Entry">
								<xs:complexType>
									<xs:sequence>
										<xs:element name="URLExcludes">
											<xs:complexType>
												<xs:sequence>
													<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" name="exclude">
														<xs:complexType>
															<xs:attribute name="Type" type="xs:string" use="required" />
															<xs:attribute name="CaseSensitive" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
															<xs:attribute name="Pattern" type="xs:string" use="required" />
														</xs:complexType>
													</xs:element>
												</xs:sequence>
											</xs:complexType>
										</xs:element>
										<xs:element name="FileExcludes">
											<xs:complexType>
												<xs:sequence>
													<xs:element minOccurs="0" name="exclude">
														<xs:complexType>
															<xs:attribute name="Type" type="xs:string" use="required" />
															<xs:attribute name="CaseSensitive" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
															<xs:attribute name="Pattern" type="xs:string" use="required" />
														</xs:complexType>
													</xs:element>
												</xs:sequence>
											</xs:complexType>
										</xs:element>
										<xs:element name="URLIncludes">
											<xs:complexType>
												<xs:sequence>
													<xs:element minOccurs="0"  name="include">
														<xs:complexType>
															<xs:attribute name="Type" type="xs:string" use="required" />
															<xs:attribute name="CaseSensitive" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
															<xs:attribute name="Pattern" type="xs:string" use="required" />
														</xs:complexType>
													</xs:element>
												</xs:sequence>
											</xs:complexType>
										</xs:element>
										<xs:element name="FileIncludes">
											<xs:complexType>
												<xs:sequence>
													<xs:element minOccurs="0" name="include">
														<xs:complexType>
															<xs:attribute name="Type" type="xs:string" use="required" />
															<xs:attribute name="CaseSensitive" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
															<xs:attribute name="Pattern" type="xs:string" use="required" />
														</xs:complexType>
													</xs:element>
												</xs:sequence>
											</xs:complexType>
										</xs:element>
										<xs:element name="FileExtensions">
											<xs:complexType>
												<xs:sequence>
													<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" name="extension">
														<xs:complexType>
															<xs:attribute name="suffix" type="xs:string" use="required" />
														</xs:complexType>
													</xs:element>
												</xs:sequence>
											</xs:complexType>
										</xs:element>
									</xs:sequence>
									<xs:attribute name="URL" type="xs:string" use="required" />
									<xs:attribute name="Name" type="xs:string" use="optional" />
									<xs:attribute name="SaveToOverride" type="xs:string" use="optional" />
									<xs:attribute name="SaveHierarchical" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
									<xs:attribute name="SaveHTML" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
									<xs:attribute name="SavePDF" type="xs:boolean" use="required"  />
									<xs:attribute name="XLink" type="xs:boolean" use="required"  />
									<xs:attribute name="RecursionLevel" type="xs:unsignedByte" use="required" />
								</xs:complexType>
							</xs:element>
						</xs:sequence>

					</xs:complexType>
				</xs:element>
			</xs:sequence>
		</xs:complexType>
	</xs:element>
</xs:schema>


What I have tried:

Apparently I can't add attributes to the element directly:

<xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="ManifestEntries" TITLE="Blah">


I can't just cram some attributes in before the xs:sequence or xs:complexType

<xs:element maxoccurs="unbounded" name="ManifestEntries">
<xs:complextype>
<xs:attribute name="Type" type="xs:string" use="required">



<xs:sequence>
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Comments
Member 15627495 26-Dec-22 2:18am    
you have defined too much 'sequence' , sequences are 'hard constraints' on xml handling.
write again your xsd , but without 'sequence'.
In my opinion, you have nested too much 'sequences' and 'complextype'.

an xsd is a 'checking tool' but miswritten it revoke writing xml.
Member 15627495 26-Dec-22 2:21am    
it's like debuging, you have to rewrite your xsd step by step, and verify if your code is compliant.

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