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POEmded XHTML snippet in XML document, and validate against a schema
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    copied!<p>Essentially I want to embed some XHTML in an XML document that must validate against a custom schema.</p> <p>Full background:</p> <p>I have a webservice that consumes an XML document. This XML document is validated against a custom schema. The data in the XML is parsed and stored in a database, and displayed in a useful format on a website.</p> <p>The customer who fires the XML at my webservice has its own internal "IT / programmer guy". He wants to be able to display some custom XHMTL in some placeholders on some of the websites pages.</p> <p>We have agreed that he can extend the XML that he fires at my webservice to include 3 new elements that will contain the HTML, and I will adjust my schema accordingly. I'll also do the processing to get his XHTML out of the XML doc an on to the web pages.</p> <p>I don't want to use cdata as that could be quite insecure (I think!), so I was trying to use an <code>&lt;xs:any&gt;</code> in the schema:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xs:element name="SomeXhtmlStuff" minOccurs="0"&gt; &lt;xs:complexType&gt; &lt;xs:sequence&gt; &lt;xs:any minOccurs="0"/&gt; &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; &lt;/xs:element&gt; </code></pre> <p>I was thinking this would mean that any valid XML would be OK in the element, e.g. all XHTML tags would be fine, however I tried this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;SomeXhtmlStuff&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is a test HTML output for Job Details&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/SomeXhtmlStuff&gt; </code></pre> <p>and the XML won't validate against it. Edit: Visual Studio 2008 in it automatic validator gives the error "the 'p' element is not declared"</p> <p>I haven't got much experience with XML/schema and I inherited this project, any suggestions would be more than welcome!</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p>
 

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