I have an XML document containing this set of fixed-length within a tag:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <data>8.5 6.54 3.11 6.76 123.0</data>

These are dew point readings from a sensor, each field is 5 bytes long. What would be a schema for this instance? Can a schema describe untagged data?

The real data is complex, coming from many sensors and having a structured hierarchy but the above sample articulates the use-case adequately. I do not want to tag every data element as bandwidth varies greatly.

Right now I let this lite XML to flow over the wireless connection then use XSL to generate a fully tagged document. My schema describes the latter. Can a reference to a stylesheet be embededded in a schema such as to say, "apply this transform to the data before validating"?

Thanks.

Kurt Steele

Engineer

Northrop-Grumman

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