XSD and plain text
- by Paul Knopf
I have a rest/xml service that gives me the following...
<verse-unit unit-id="38009001">
<marker class="begin-verse" mid="v38009001"/>
<begin-chapter num="9"/><heading>Judgment on Israel's Enemies</heading>
<begin-block-indent/>
<begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
<begin-line/><verse-num begin-chapter="9">1</verse-num>The burden of the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is against the land of Hadrach<end-line class="br"/>
<begin-line class="indent"/>and Damascus is its resting place.<end-line class="br"/>
<begin-line/>For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has an eye on mankind<end-line class="br"/>
<begin-line class="indent"/>and on all the tribes of Israel,<footnote id="f1">
A slight emendation yields <i>
For to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> belongs the capital of Syria and all the tribes of Israel
</i>
</footnote><end-line class="br"/>
</verse-unit>
I used visual studio to generate a schema from this and used XSD.EXE to generate classes that I can use to deserialize this mess into programmable stuff.
I got everything to work and it is deserialized perfectly (almost).
The problem I have is with the random text mixed throughout the child nodes. The generated verse-unit objects gives me a list of objects (begin-line, begin-block-indent, etc), and also another list of string objects that represent the bits of string throughout the xml.
Here is my schema
<xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="verse-unit">
<xs:complexType mixed="true">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:element name="marker">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="class" type="xs:string" use="required" />
<xs:attribute name="mid" type="xs:string" use="required" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="begin-chapter">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="num" type="xs:unsignedByte" use="required" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="heading">
<xs:complexType mixed="true">
<xs:sequence minOccurs="0">
<xs:element name="span">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:extension base="xs:string">
<xs:attribute name="class" type="xs:string" use="required" />
</xs:extension>
</xs:simpleContent>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="begin-block-indent" />
<xs:element name="begin-paragraph">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="class" type="xs:string" use="required" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="begin-line">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="class" type="xs:string" use="optional" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="verse-num">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:extension base="xs:unsignedByte">
<xs:attribute name="begin-chapter" type="xs:unsignedByte" use="optional" />
</xs:extension>
</xs:simpleContent>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="end-line">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="class" type="xs:string" use="optional" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="end-paragraph" />
<xs:element name="end-block-indent" />
<xs:element name="end-chapter" />
</xs:choice>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="unit-id" type="xs:unsignedInt" use="required" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
WHAT I NEED IS THIS. I need the random text that is NOT surrounded by an xml node to be represented by an object so I know the order that everything is in.
I know this is complicated, so let me try to simplify it.
<field name="test_field_0">
Some text I'm sure you don't want.
<subfield>Some text.</subfield>
More text you don't want.
</field>
I need the xsd to generate a field object with items that can have either a text object, or a subfield object. I need to no where the random text is within the child nodes.
