Well, a little research taught me something new!

The key is xs:sequence. If this is used, the elements in the XML have to be in the same order as specified in the XSD.

As opposed to xs:all in which case the order can be different.

Venki

Hi: I am validating an XML document against an XSD. A snippet of the offending XSD is below: <xs:element name="record"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="recordID" type="string100"/> <xs:element name="recordUserId" type="string30" minO...