My examples don't work as expected. Why doesn't my
pattern work? This is an example from page 49 of the
www.xfront.com tutorial on XML Schema (PowerPoint #1) which I have edited slightly for readability. Why doesn't my pattern spit out an error for the
Testing field(with the TestType pattern) which is supposed to be only 5 positions long with a dash after the first 4?
Here is the content of JavaRanch.xml ==>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<BookStore xmlns="http://www.books.org"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.books.org JavaRanch.xsd">
<Book>
<Title>Get this stuff figured out!</Title>
<Author>John Doe</Author>
<Date>1998</Date>
<Testing>BLAHBLAH9999</Testing>
<Publisher>McMillin Publishing</Publisher>
</Book>
</BookStore>
Here is the content of JavaRanch.xsd ==>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
targetNamespace="http://www.books.org"
xmlns="http://www.books.org"
elementFormDefault="qualified">
<xsd:simpleType name="TestType">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
<xsd:length value = "5"/>
<xsd:pattern value="\d{4}-\d{1}"/>
</xsd:restriction>
</xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:element name="BookStore">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="Book" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="Title" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="Author" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="Date" type="xsd:gYear"/>
<xsd:element name="Testing" type="TestType"/>
<xsd:element name="Publisher" type="xsd:string"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>