How to check only specific / specific tags in XML?

Question

I have an XML code with code. I wrote an XSD to validate the XML. I have XML tags in them that do not need to be validated. Is there a way to test certain tags and skip others?

XML example:

<person>
<firstname>Name</firstname>
<lastname>Name</lastname>
<tag1>data</tag1>
<tag2>data</tag2>
<tag3>data</tag3>
</person>

I need to check only <firstname>and <lastname>and skip checking all the other elements.

Answer 1

You cannot “ignore” elements in the sense that the parser simply skipped some XML code, but you can make your schema less restrictive by allowing any type of element as a child element.

XSD "" . :

<xs:element name="person">
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="firstname" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:element name="lastname" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:any minOccurs="0"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

, xml, "person".