XML Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

∟Syntaxes of XSD Statements

∟Empty Element Types

This section describes the empty element type which can be used to define an XML element with no text content and at least one attribute.

Empty XML Element Type: A special complex XML element that has at least one attribute and no child text content. Empty XML elements must be defined with complex data types in the following format:

<xsd:complexType name="my_data_type">
 <xsd:attribute name="attribute_a" type="data_type_a"/>
 <xsd:attribute name="attribute_b" type="data_type_b"/>
 ...
</xsd:complexType>

Here is an example of an empty element type:

<xsd:complexType name="userType">
 <xsd:simpleContent>
  <xsd:extension base="xsd:string">
   <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
   <xsd:attribute name="password" type="xsd:string"/>
  </xsd:extension>
 </xsd:simpleContent>
</xsd:complexType>

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

 XML File Syntax

 XML File Browsers

 DOM (Document Object Model) Programming Interface

 SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface

 DTD (Document Type Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of DTD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified DTD Document Type

 XSD (XML Schema Definition) Introduction

►Syntaxes of XSD Statements

 "schema" - The Schema Declaration Statement

 "element" - The Element Declaration Statement

 Simple Element Types with Built-in Data Types

 Simple Element Types with Extended Data Types

 Complex Element Types

 Simple Content Element Types

►Empty Element Types

 Anonymous or Inline Data Types

 dictionary.xsd - A Sample XSD XML Schema File

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified XML Schema

 XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) Introduction

 XSLT (XSL Transformations) Introduction

 Java Implementation of XSLT

 XPath (XML Path) Language

 XSLT Elements as Programming Statements

 Control and Generate XML Element in the Result

 References

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