Hi there,

Is it possible to a create a schema that allows an xml document to have repeating child nodes of a parent to be appearing in any order? For example, the following is a sample of my xml document.

<parent>
  <child1>A</child1>
  <child1>B</child1>
  <child2>C</child2>
  <child1>D</child1>
  <child3>E</child3>
  <child3>F</child3>
  <child2>G</child2>
</parent>

With my current schema as shown, the xml document obviouslt doesnt conforms to the schema. How can I change my schema document so that it will allow for any order and with the possiblity that the different child elements to be repeating?

<xs:element name="parent">
        <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element ref="child1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                <xs:element ref="child2" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                <xs:element ref="child3" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
            </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
    </xs:element>

thanks

Not exactly on-topic for an XSLT forum...

You can write

    <xs:element name="parent">
        <xs:complexType>
            <xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
                <xs:element ref="child1" />
                <xs:element ref="child2" />
                <xs:element ref="child3" />
            </xs:choice>
        </xs:complexType>
    </xs:element>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference