[xsd-users] Evaluating XSD - XML format question

[Tom Richard Evensen]

Hi,

We are currently evaluating XSD.
While playing with the XSD-generated code in a test project, I came across an issue that I'm sure
you can answer easily.

I have a schema like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <xsd:element name="MyMessage" type="MyMessageType"/>
   <xsd:complexType name="MyMessageType">
      <xsd:attribute name="p1" type="xsd:long"/>
      <xsd:attribute name="p2" type="xsd:long"/>
      <xsd:attribute name="p3" type="xsd:long"/>
      <xsd:attribute name="p4" type="xsd:float"/>
   </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>


The generated code is able read XML-files with this content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<MyMessage p1="1000" p2="15" p3="12345678" p4="123456"/>


but not with this content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<MyMessage>
<p1>1000</p1>
<p2>15</p2>
<p3>12345678</p3>
<p4>123456</p4>
</MyMessage>



When trying to read the second version, I get two errors for each line telling me that "no character
data is allowed by content model", and "no declaration found for element p?" (substitute ? with
1..4).
In addition it tells me that "element p1 is not allowed for content model EMPTY".

Shouldn't these to data representations be the same?
What am I missing, or what am I doing wrong?

I'm using the xsd-tree customization build in VS2010, and setting the property
no_namespace_schema_location to the xsd-file above.


Kind regards,
Tom R. Evensen