Hi there,

I am not if it is possible to check for valid child elements of a parent before processing the parent. to give an example as shown below where I regenerate the whole node-set of the parent (being test1, test2 etc) if the descendants are valid.


<ValidateDataTypes xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <Test1>
        <string_20>apple</string_20>
        <boolean_YN>yes</boolean_YN>
        <decimal_3>12.456</boolean_YN>
    </Test1>
    <Test2>
        <string_Nullable/>
        <payment>
            <decimal_2>25.78</decimal_2>
        </payment>
    </Test2>
    <Test3>
        <payment>
            <decimal_2>125.789</decimal_2>
        </payment>
    </Test3>
</ValidateDataTypes>


the desired output should be

<ValidateDataTypes xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <Failed>
        <string_20>string length is not 20</string_20>
        <boolean_YN>only 1 char allowed</boolean_YN>
        <decimal_3>12.456</boolean_YN>
    </Failed>
    <Test2>
        <string_Nullable/>
        <payment>
            <decimal_2>25.78</decimal_2>
        </payment>
    </Test2>
    <Failed>
        <payment>
            <decimal_2>only 2 decimal places allowed</decimal_2>
        </payment>
    </Failed>
</ValidateDataTypes>


thanks