XSD Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.23, by Herong Yang
Complex Element Declaration
This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on complex element declarations. Topics include declaring XML elements that includes or excludes text content, sub elements or attributes; defining complexType datatypes with simpleContent or complexContent using anyType as the base datatype.
Complex Element vs. Simple Element
Declaring Complex Elements with Simple Content
Declaring Complex Elements with Attributes Only
Declaring Complex Elements with Sub Elements Only
Declaring Complex Elements with Attributes and Sub Elements
Declaring Complex Elements with Attributes, Sub Elements & Text Content
Takeaways:
Table of Contents
XML Editor and Schema Processor - XMLPad
Java API for XML Processing - JAXP
JAXP - XML Schema (XSD) Validation
Xerces2 Java Parser - Java API of XML Parsers
Introduction of XSD Built-in Datatypes
"string" and Its Derived Datatypes
"decimal" and Its Derived Datatypes
"dateTime" and Its Related Datatypes
Miscellaneous Built-in Datatypes
Facets, Constraining Facets and Restriction Datatypes
"simpleType" - Defining Your Own Simple Datatypes
Identity-Constraints: unique, key and keyref
Assertion as Custom Validation Rules
XML Schema Location and Namespace in XML Documents
Overriding Element Types in XML Documents