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I have an application that tries to validate the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<cnt:agenda xmlns:cnt="urn:ppp:contacts"

    xmlns:cnt2="urn:ppp:contactsv2"

    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ppp:contactsv2 contactsv2.xsd urn:ppp:contacts contacts.xsd ">

    <cnt:entry>

        <cnt:number>12345678</cnt:number>

    </cnt:entry>

    <cnt:entry>

        <cnt:number>12345678</cnt:number>

        <cnt2:personal-info>

           <cnt2:genre>male</cnt2:genre>

           <cnt2:age>30</cnt2:age>

        </cnt2:personal-info>

    </cnt:entry>

</cnt:agenda>

In order to fulfill that, I have these two XSD schemas:

contacts.xsd

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xs:schema

   targetNamespace="urn:ppp:contacts"

   xmlns="urn:ppp:contacts"

   xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

   elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">



  <xs:element name="agenda">

    <xs:complexType>

      <xs:sequence maxOccurs="unbounded">

        <xs:element name="entry" type="entry-type"/>

        <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

      </xs:sequence>

    </xs:complexType>

  </xs:element>



  <xs:complexType name="entry-type">

    <xs:sequence>

      <xs:element name="display-name" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>

      <xs:element name="number" type="xs:string"/>

      <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

    </xs:sequence>

    <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>

  </xs:complexType>

</xs:schema>

and contactsv2.xsd

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xs:schema targetNamespace="urn:ppp:contactsv2"

    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

    xmlns:cnt2="urn:ppp:contactsv2"

    xmlns:cnt="urn:ppp:contacts"

    elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">



    <xs:import namespace="urn:ppp:contacts" schemaLocation="contacts.xsd"/>



    <!-- Child of entry element --> 

    <xs:element name="personal-info"

    type="cnt2:personal-infoType" />



    <xs:complexType name="personal-infoType">

        <xs:sequence>

            <xs:element name="genre"

                type="xs:string" />

            <xs:element name="age" type="xs:unsignedByte" minOccurs="0"/>

        </xs:sequence>

    </xs:complexType>

</xs:schema>

As you can see, the second schema extends the first one for adding some new child to entry element. At this point, I have found some issues:

1. If an extended element is typed incorrectly (for example, gere instead of genre) the validator does not give any error. I know that this is because of having lax as the value of processContents attribute of all the any elements, but I'm not supposed to change contacts.xsd schema. So, can I bypass this behavior somehow?




2. Can I control somehow where are the extended elements added? Because if I add the personal-info element as a child of agenda the validator says that the document is valid, and I want to let only appear that element as a child of entry.

Note: I cannot use XSD 1.1 version

Thanks in advance

I'm not sure whether "no" counts as an answer, but I don't think there is an easy solution to either problem. You could try modifying the given schema without really modifying it by using xs:redefine, but personally I hate that feature, and find it far preferable to modify the supplied schema as a source document (perhaps controlling the process by making the modifications repeatable, via an XSLT stylesheet).