Windows Sidebar Gadget's Manifest's Schema

While developing my app (see previous post) i came across a need to validate my generated xml with a schema. I searched around the internet but couldn’t find any schema for the Windows Sidebar Gadget.xml. Many people were asking for one various forums but they got no reply. I needed it too so i thought why not create one for myself, since i didn't knew much about creating xml schemas so referenced some websites and wrote the following schema in Visual Studio. Using Visual Studio made it all easier for me to write a schema cause it helped me by automatically completing and closing tags and it also suggested various attributes i can set, through its "intellisense".  Visual Studio obviously boosts productivity and makes learning new things easy.

Following is the schema code for the Windows sidebar gadget’s manifest.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xs:schema id="SidebarGadget"

              xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <xs:element name="gadget" type="Tgadget"/>

  <xs:complexType name="Tgadget">

    <xs:sequence maxOccurs="1">

      <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/>

      <xs:element name="namespace" type="xs:string"/>

      <xs:element name="version" type="xs:string"/>

      <xs:element name="author" type="Tauthor"/>

      <xs:element name="copyright" type="xs:string"/>

      <xs:element name="description" type="xs:string"/>

      <xs:element name="icons" type="Ticons" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

      <xs:element name="hosts" type="Thosts"/>

    </xs:sequence>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="Tauthor">

    <xs:sequence>

      <xs:element name="info" type="Turl"/>

      <xs:element name="logo" type="Tlogo"/>

    </xs:sequence>

    <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string"/>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="Turl">

    <xs:attribute name="url" type="xs:string"/>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="Tlogo">

    <xs:attribute name="src" type="xs:string"/>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="Ticons">

    <xs:sequence>

      <xs:element name="icon" type="Ticon"/>

    </xs:sequence>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="Ticon">

    <xs:attribute name="hight" type="xs:nonNegativeInteger"/>

    <xs:attribute name="width" type="xs:nonNegativeInteger"/>

    <xs:attribute name="src" type="xs:string"/>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="Thosts">

    <xs:sequence>

      <xs:element name="host" type ="Thost"/>

    </xs:sequence>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="Thost">

    <xs:sequence>

      <xs:element name="base" type="Tbase"/>

      <xs:element name="permission" type="xs:string"/>

      <xs:element name="platform" type="Tplatform"/>

      <xs:element name="autoscaleDPI" type="xs:boolean" nillable="true"/>

      <xs:element name="defaultImage" type="TdefaultImage"/>

    </xs:sequence>

    <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" default="sidebar"/>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="Tbase">

    <xs:attribute name="type" type="xs:string"/>

    <xs:attribute name="apiVersion" type="xs:string"/>

    <xs:attribute name="src" type="xs:string"/>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="Tplatform">

    <xs:attribute name="minPlatformVersion" type="xs:double"/>

  </xs:complexType>

  <xs:complexType name="TdefaultImage">

    <xs:attribute name="src" type="xs:short"/>

  </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

 

I hope this could be useful to someone who need it and don't have time to make one.

Comments or suggestion are welcome...

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