How do you insert complexType elements in xsd?

Question

I have an xml and xsd file that is validated correctly (verified at http://xsdvalidation.utilities-online.info/ ).

However, xml does not validate xsd. I think this is because I am not correctly embedding complexType elements in xsd compared to xml. The outer element of people seems to be causing the problem ...

Here is the xml:

 <?xml version = "1.0"?> <people> <person> <firstname>Joe</firstname> <lastname>Schmoe</lastname> </person> <person> <firstname>Cletus</firstname> <lastname>Jenkins</lastname> </person> </people> 

... and here is xsd:

 <?xml version = "1.0"?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:element name = "people"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name = "person"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name = "firstname" type = "xs:string" /> <xs:element name = "lastname" type = "xs:string" /> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:schema> 

Answer 1

Add maxoccurs="unbounded" to the element named man. This is a sequence of one or more elements of a person.

Answer 2

Try this for your XSD:

 <?xml version = "1.0"?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:element name="people" type="people"/> <xs:complexType name="people"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="person" type="person" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> <xs:complexType name="person"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="firstname" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1"/> <xs:element name="lastname" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:schema>