Question

I need a way to know what are the children of an XmlNode allowed by the XML Schemas associated to the XML file. Is there a simple way in C#?

I need it to implement a sort of contextual editor that suggests to the user the children allowed of the current edited XML Node.

thanks

Answer 1

You may try using the XmlSchemaValidator Class –

It validates XML data against XML schemas in a push-based manner

See the “GetExpectedParticles” function where for the sample it says –

If the GetExpectedParticles method is called after the title element
has been validated but before the description element has been
validated, it returns an array containing a single XmlSchemaElement
object representing the description element.

You may also try running the sample provided.