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XML Schema Reference

: Category: Extensible Markup Language; 13 August 2014; 13 August 2014; Hits: 32742; Rating:

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XSD Elements

Element	Explanation
all	Specifies that the child elements can appear in any order. Each child element can occur 0 or 1 time
annotation	Specifies the top-level element for schema comments
any	Enables the author to extend the XML document with elements not specified by the schema
anyAttribute	Enables the author to extend the XML document with attributes not specified by the schema
appinfo	Specifies information to be used by the application (must go inside annotation)
attribute	Defines an attribute
attributeGroup	Defines an attribute group to be used in complex type definitions
choice	Allows only one of the elements contained in the declaration to be present within the containing element
complexContent	Defines extensions or restrictions on a complex type that contains mixed content or elements only
complexType	Defines a complex type element
documentation	Defines text comments in a schema (must go inside annotation)
element	Defines an element
extension	Extends an existing simpleType or complexType element
field	Specifies an XPath expression that specifies the value used to define an identity constraint
group	Defines a group of elements to be used in complex type definitions
import	Adds multiple schemas with different target namespace to a document
include	Adds multiple schemas with the same target namespace to a document
key	Specifies an attribute or element value as a key (unique, non-nullable, and always present) within the containing element in an instance document
keyref	Specifies that an attribute or element value correspond to those of the specified key or unique element
list	Defines a simple type element as a list of values
notation	Describes the format of non-XML data within an XML document
redefine	Redefines simple and complex types, groups, and attribute groups from an external schema
restriction	Defines restrictions on a simpleType, simpleContent, or a complexContent
schema	Defines the root element of a schema
selector	Specifies an XPath expression that selects a set of elements for an identity constraint
sequence	Specifies that the child elements must appear in a sequence. Each child element can occur from 0 to any number of times
simpleContent	Contains extensions or restrictions on a text-only complex type or on a simple type as content and contains no elements
simpleType	Defines a simple type and specifies the constraints and information about the values of attributes or text-only elements
union	Defines a simple type as a collection (union) of values from specified simple data types
unique	Defines that an element or an attribute value must be unique within the scope

XSD Restrictions/Facets for Datatypes

Constraint	Description
enumeration	Defines a list of acceptable values
fractionDigits	Specifies the maximum number of decimal places allowed. Must be equal to or greater than zero
length	Specifies the exact number of characters or list items allowed. Must be equal to or greater than zero
maxExclusive	Specifies the upper bounds for numeric values (the value must be less than this value)
maxInclusive	Specifies the upper bounds for numeric values (the value must be less than or equal to this value)
maxLength	Specifies the maximum number of characters or list items allowed. Must be equal to or greater than zero
minExclusive	Specifies the lower bounds for numeric values (the value must be greater than this value)
minInclusive	Specifies the lower bounds for numeric values (the value must be greater than or equal to this value)
minLength	Specifies the minimum number of characters or list items allowed. Must be equal to or greater than zero
pattern	Defines the exact sequence of characters that are acceptable
totalDigits	Specifies the maximum number of digits allowed. Must be greater than zero
whiteSpace	Specifies how white space (line feeds, tabs, spaces, and carriage returns) is handled

Source(s):

w3schools.com

SITS: Export field code and name

: Category: Extensible Markup Language; 12 August 2014; 12 August 2014; Hits: 31517; Rating:

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Applies to:

Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
SITS:Vision Students (v8.7.0)

What?
You might be able to work it out from the online manuals but it took me a while, we wanted to bring back both the code and the lookup value in our XML to our Staging environment.

Why?
Let's take the country of birth of a person as an example as it is expected to be a long list and where just using the parameter &S is not workable. Instead I want to use &G[] and get both the code and the lookup value:

-- What I have: no export format
<stu_codc>5826</stu_codc>

-- What I could have: export format set to get lookup value
-- &GCOD_NAME.COD.SRS
<stu_codc>England</stu_codc>

-- What I want: export format to get multiple values
-- &G[COD.SRS:•<•<COD_CODE.COD•>•>|•<•<COD_NAME.COD•>•>]
<stu_codc>5826|England</stu_codc>

How?

: Category: Extensible Markup Language; 08 August 2014; 08 August 2014; Hits: 12527; Rating:

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What?
Trying to export a STU record but I want to use the XET template I created rather than the pre-installed XML export formats. When I try to export using data format XET, the system has never heard of it.

Why?
To test the XET I created, I want to see what the resulting XML will look like so that my post-staging phase can be developed as it will know what the data and label fields look like.

How?

: Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations; 18 August 2014; 18 August 2014; Hits: 31487; Rating:

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What?
An article on how to declare an XML element as NULL using the attribute "xsi:nil". I'm going to use a very short example by providing a blank date of birth value:

-- What I have:
<DATE_OF_BIRTH />
<DATE_OF_BIRTH_EUROPEANFORMAT>//</DATE_OF_BIRTH_EUROPEANFORMAT>

-- What I want:
<DATE_OF_BIRTH xsi:nil="true" />
<DATE_OF_BIRTH_EUROPEANFORMAT xsi:nil="true" />

Why?
Outputting from SITS:Vision to our staging environment, the application would only output blank values using single tags so we had to find a place to introduce it. On strings this has little worth, but on dates which could be NULL, this was necessary (unless we interpreted dates as strings which we don't want to do):

: Category: Bootstrap; 04 October 2018; 14 December 2016; Hits: 17713; Rating:

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What?
A quick reminder on how to make the carousel in bootstrap compatible with touch devices like smartphones and tablets.

Why?
Feed back was that the user was unimpressed with the image slideshow. You have to tap on the left and right symbols...

How?
Some will suggest to load the jQueryMobile library but that started messing up the template layouts for me. I really like the solution (and think it should be voted best answer) put forward by Mark Shiraldi:

Xero API: Send Multiple Invoices

: Category: Xero; 15 August 2021; 15 August 2021; Hits: 16718; Rating:

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What?
A really quick article for anyone who got stumped by the same issue: How to send multiple invoices to Xero in one API call?

Why?
Our use-case is in Zoho Deluge which couldn't generate more than 5 invoices in a scheduled task because Xero only allows 5 concurrent connections at one time... And Zoho was trying to send about 7 at a time (as in schedule created 7 Zoho invoices but only 5 Xero invoices). Our solution: Send all Zoho invoices in API call to Xero... apparently it can accept up to 60 invoices in one call.

How?
Crazy simple solution, your JSON needs to have the key "Invoices" and the list of invoices to create:

{"Invoices":[... list of invoices ...]}

: Category: Xero; 10 January 2020; 10 January 2020; Hits: 2078; Rating:

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What?
This is an article documenting a generic script that can be used to push an invoice to the demo Xero environment. Following the steps below will connect you to the Demonstration environment of Xero at no cost to you the developer.

How?
Similar to my ZohoAPI script the process is:

Start with a HTML form to add your client ID/client Secret/scopes and Redirect URI. These get stored in a temporary file to retrieve later.
Then you get a button that will return the "CODE" variable via GET (URL). Clicking on this will get the CODE variable and use it to generate a refresh token.
Then with the refresh token generate an access token.
Then with the access token get a connection "TenantID".
Then with the tenantID we can retrieve records and/or finally create an invoice (accounts receivables).

Joel's guide to MidJourney Prompts: fire mage, steampunk victorian, detailed, full body hyperrealistic female

Joel's Reference to MidJourney v4 Prompts

: Category: Graphic Design; 11 February 2023; 11 February 2023; Hits: 110099; Rating:

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What?
So this is an article for me to store prompts for the MidJourney AI text-2-image discord tool.

Why?
The results from the MidJourney bot are beyond unpredictable however with the correct prompts you can direct it to focus on the elements you want from a brief.

How?
A "prompt" is a text-to-image expression using words and phrases to instruct the Midjourney Bot (or any other AI text-2-image generator) which the bot can break down into "tokens" and then match with its training data to generate the image.

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