Finding Child Elements of Top-Level XML Schema Elements
SOM elements that are returned from interface properties originate at the top level of the XML Schema. Top-level elements of an XML Schema are declarations that are not nested inside other declarations.
Example
The following example shows a top-level <ComplexType>
declaration that contains a second-level <element>
declaration.
XML Schema: childsample.xsd
<schema xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <complexType name = "TopLevelType"> <all> <element name = "SecondLevelElement"/> </all> </complexType> </schema>
To navigate through the schema to the secondary and lower child items, you must use the contentModel property of the ISchemaComplexType interface. This property returns a SchemaModelGroup object. The particles property of the ISchemaModelGroup interface returns a collection of elements, modelGroup
objects, and any
declarations that are in the <complexType>
declaration of the parent element.
Example
In the following example, the schema above, childsample.xsd, is queried from a Visual Basic program.
Dim oSchemaCache as New XMLSchemaCache50 Dim oSchema as ISchema Dim nsTarget as String nsTarget = "http://www.samples.microsoft.com/sampletarget" oSchemaCache.add nsTarget, "childsample.xsd" Set oSchema = oSchemaCache.getSchema(nsTarget) Set oComplexTypes = oSchema.types Set oContentModelGroup = oComplexTypes(0).contentModel Set oChildItems = oContentModelGroup.particles strElementName = oChildItems(0).Name
Note When you use the DOM to find child items, you can go directly to the node you want. With the SOM, however, you must start with a top-level item and drill down through the child elements until you reach the node you want.
See Also
Concepts | Complex Type Definitions | Defining Complex Types