SQLXMLBulkLoad Schema Validation Issue (Easy) - sql

Question

I have a huge XML file full of employees and information, and have a question.
Example of XML File:
<Employees>
<Employee>
<EmployeeID>blah</EmployeeID>
<FirstName>blah</FirstName>
<LastName>blah</LastName>
<MiddleName>blah</MiddleName>
.......... and on
</Employee>
........ and on
</Employees>
My schema, so far is like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsd:element name="Employees" sql:relation="The_Employees">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="Employee">
<xsd:element name="EmployeeID" sql:field="EmpNo" type="xsd:integer"/>
<xsd:element name="FirstName" sql:field="FirstName">
<xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
<xsd:whiteSpace value="collapse"/>
</xsd:restriction>
</xsd:simpleType>
</xsd:element>
.......... and on
</xsd:element>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
From my research, the root element is supposed to contain the relation with your table in the DB (for privacy sake, the name in this example is "The_Employees") So, I made that relation, and also made the sql:field for each column in the table because the column names are different than the XML Element tags in most cases. However, in what ways to do I relate each individual <Employee> tag to my table? Also, whilst validating the XML, it throws this error:
The content of 'Employee' must match (annotation?, (simpleType |
complexType)?, (unique | key | keyref)*)). A problem was found
starting at: element.
It seems like the validator is thinking that I am trying to split the content into two separate tables and therefore need to annotate that, but I am not. Any suggestions?
Just FYI: The end product here is going to be a VB.NET program which uses SQLXMLBulkLoad to load the data from the XML file into a fresh SQL Table.

Answer 1

Alright... the fix was simple and I am answering this so that someone in the future may refer to it. If you have a root element as well as each individual parent element under that root element and you are using BulkLoad, then you can set the root element to sql:is-constant = 1. This tells the schema that the root element exists, but to ignore it. Also, the above schema was ammended to:
<xsd:element name="Employees" sql:is-constant=1>
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="Employee" sql:relation="The_Employees">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="EmployeeID" sql:field="EmpNo" type="xsd:integer"/>
<xsd:element name="FirstName" sql:field="FirstName">
<xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
<xsd:whiteSpace value="collapse"/>
</xsd:restriction>
</xsd:simpleType>
</xsd:element>
.......... and on
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>