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XQuery

by Priscilla Walmsley
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
21h 15m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 13. Using Schemas with XQuery

Using schemas can result in queries that are better optimized and tested. This chapter first provides a brief overview of XML Schema. It then explains how schemas are used with queries, by importing schema definitions and taking advantage of schema-defined types.

What Is a Schema?

A schema is used to describe the structure and data content of XML documents. Example 13-1 shows a schema that might describe our catalog.xml sample document. This schema can be used to validate the catalog document, assuring that:

  • Only approved elements and attributes are used

  • The elements appear in the correct order

  • All required elements are present

  • All elements and attributes have valid values

In addition, it can provide information to the query processor about the types of the values in the document—for example, that product numbers are integers.

Example 13-1. Schema for catalog.xml

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:element name="catalog" type="CatalogType"/> <xs:complexType name="CatalogType"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="product" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> <xs:element name="product" type="ProductType"/> <xs:complexType name="ProductType"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="number" type="xs:integer"/> <xs:element name="name" type="NameType"/> <xs:element name="colorChoices" type="ColorListType" minOccurs="0"/> <xs:element name="desc" minOccurs="0"/> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name="dept" type="xs:string"/> </xs:complexType> ...
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