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Validation, schema, and undef (Score:1)

by dakkar (5832)

You know, if the schema requires the element to be there, it means that "undef" is not a valid value for the internal representation of that element. If it were, the schema should have declared the element as optional :)

It's like you put a "NOT NULL" on database column, and then complain you can't put a NULL in it... (OK, XML and RDBMS are not that similar, but it was the closest example I could come up with)
Schemas (Score:2)

by Ovid (2709)

I agree, but I have a real world problem. The client has agreed to send data which passes the schema, but they often send a lot of junk. As a result, we frequently don't know if they forgot to send something or if the information just really isn't there :(
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  by Aristotle (5147)
  
  That seems to me to say more about the client’s code than about XML.

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