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> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@s...] > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 04:50 > To: 'Ashish Gupta'; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Getting attributes of XML from XSD... > > > If the attributes are defined as fixed, then they must also > be present in the XML instance I thought that "fixed" did not imply "required". Indeed, http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/ says: "fixed indicates that the attribute value if present must equal the supplied constraint value, and if absent receives the supplied value as for default" Alessandro Triglia > , and a schema processor will > validate that the value in the instance matches the fixed > value in the schema. If you schema defines a default value, > then a schema processor will extract the default value from > the schema and insert it into the XML document. So the simple > answer to your question is that you need to put your document > through a schema processor: you can regard this as a > processing stage that follows raw XML parsing. Java-based > schema processors such as Saxon and Xerces will operate > within a SAX pipeline so your application can still receive > the data (augmented with default attribute values) as a > stream of SAX events. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > > > > From: Ashish Gupta [mailto:guptash@g...] > Sent: 21 October 2005 08:44 > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Getting attributes of XML from XSD... > > > HI, > I have one XML file which is confirming to one XSD. In XML, > attributes can be optional. But in XSD, attributes are FIXED > type and I want to extract the values of attributes from XSD > if they are not present in XML file. I will be parsing the > XML file using SAX. How can I get the attributes values from > XSD? Please help me as I am stuck in one mission critical > project. Thanks in advance. > Regards, > Ashish >
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