Are you guys on twitter? whats your twitter address? im @journik On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Tennis Smith<ten...@tripit.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for some guidence in handling a testing issue. I'm new to > XML/XSLT, so please bear with me. > > First, a little background. My charter is to generate XML test messages to > make sure we process them correctly. These messages are validated against a > schema. I'm using generateDS to generate the test messages. This ensures > the xml is correct. > > Everything works great except for one problem that keeps cropping up. Some > elements cannot be defined easily ahead of time when generating the final > test document. > > For example, a field of type "xs:date" will have to be modifed because tests > are based on a relative date, not an absolute one. That is, dates in tests > are based on things like "3 days before today". > > Therefore, I'd like to figure out some way to change certain fields like > date so that I can pass a string and _still validate_ it against the > schema. Using the example, "-3" would be passed in the date field so that > the test harness will recognize it as "today - 3 days". > > Put another way, the goal is to make this: > <xs:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="date" type="xs:date"/> > ...behave like this: > <xs:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="date" type="xs:string"/> > > Naturally, I can edit and copy/paste into a completely new schema file. But > I was hoping someone could tell me if I can do some kind of XSLT or whatever > to get the same effect. > > Thanks, > > > _______________________________________________ > XML-SIG maillist - xml-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig > >
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