SoftwareInfo XML Schema Definition

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07/20/2015

This topic contains the definition of the SoftwareInfo XML schema.

The namespace of the SoftwareInfo XML schema is:

https://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/DeviceMetadata/PackageInfo/2007/11/
https://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2010/08/DeviceMetadata/SoftwareInfo

The following is a complete definition of the PackageInfo XML Schema.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding ="UTF-8" ?>
<xs:schema targetNamespace="https://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2010/08/DeviceMetadata/SoftwareInfo" xmlns:tns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2010/08/DeviceMetadata/SoftwareInfo" xmlns:xs="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified" blockDefault="#all">

 <xs:element name="SoftwareInfo" type="tns:SoftwareInfoType" />

<!-- Software Information Type Definition -->
 <xs:complexType name="SoftwareInfoType">
   <xs:choice>
     <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="DeviceCompanionApplications" type="tns:DeviceCompanionApplicationsType" />
      <xs:element name="PrivilegedApplications" type="tns:PrivilegedApplicationsType" minOccurs="0" />
      <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
     </xs:sequence>
     <xs:element name="PrivilegedApplications" type="tns:PrivilegedApplicationsType" />
  </xs:choice>
 </xs:complexType>

<!-- Device Companion Applications Definition -->
<xs:complexType name="DeviceCompanionApplicationsType">
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="Package" type="tns:PackageType" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
      <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

<!-- PrivilegedApplications Definition -->
<xs:complexType name="PrivilegedApplicationsType">
    <xs:choice>
      <xs:element name="AnyApplication" type="tns:AnyApplicationType" />
      <xs:element name="Package" type="tns:PackageForPrivilegedApplications" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
      <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:choice>
</xs:complexType>

<!-- Package Type Definition -->
<xs:complexType name="PackageType">
    <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="Identity" type="tns:IdentityType" />
        <xs:element name="Applications" type="tns:ApplicationsType" />
      <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

<!-- Package Identity Type Definition -->
<xs:complexType name="IdentityType">
    <xs:attribute name="Name" type="tns:PackageNameType" use="required"/>
    <xs:attribute name="Publisher" type="tns:PublisherType" use="required"/>
</xs:complexType>

  <xs:simpleType name="PackageNameType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:AsciiIdentifierType">
      <xs:minLength value="3"/>
      <xs:maxLength value="50"/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

  <xs:simpleType name="PublisherType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:DistinguishedNameType">
      <xs:maxLength value="8192"/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

  <xs:simpleType name="DistinguishedNameType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:NonEmptyStringType">
      <xs:pattern value="(CN|L|O|OU|E|C|S|STREET|T|G|I|SN|DC|SERIALNUMBER|(OID\.(0|[1-9][0-9]*)(\.(0|[1-9][0-9]*))+))=(([^,+=&quot;&lt;&gt;#;])+|&quot;.*&quot;)(, ((CN|L|O|OU|E|C|S|STREET|T|G|I|SN|DC|SERIALNUMBER|(OID\.(0|[1-9][0-9]*)(\.(0|[1-9][0-9]*))+))=(([^,+=&quot;&lt;&gt;#;])+|&quot;.*&quot;)))*"/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>
  
<!-- Applications Type Definition -->
<xs:complexType name="ApplicationsType">
    <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="Application" type="tns:ApplicationType" />
      <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

<xs:complexType name="ApplicationType">
  <xs:sequence>
    <xs:element name="DeviceNotificationHandlers" type="tns:DeviceNotificationHandlersType" minOccurs="0" />
    <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
  </xs:sequence>
  <xs:attribute name="Id" type="tns:ApplicationIdType" use="required"/>
</xs:complexType>


  <xs:simpleType name="ApplicationIdType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:AsciiWindowsIdType">
      <xs:maxLength value="64"/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>
  

<!-- Device Notification Handlers Type Definition -->
<xs:complexType name="DeviceNotificationHandlersType">
    <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="DeviceNotificationHandler" type="tns:DeviceNotificationHandlerType" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
      <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

<!-- Device Notification Handler Type Definition -->
<xs:complexType name="DeviceNotificationHandlerType">
    <xs:attribute name="EventID" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
    <xs:attribute name="EventAsset" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
</xs:complexType>

<!-- Privileged Applications Definition -->
<xs:complexType name ="AnyApplicationType">
</xs:complexType>

<xs:complexType name="PackageForPrivilegedApplications">
    <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="Identity" type="tns:IdentityForPrivilegedApplicationsType" />
      <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

<xs:complexType name="IdentityForPrivilegedApplicationsType">
    <xs:attribute name="Name" type="tns:PackageNameType" use="required"/>
    <xs:attribute name="Publisher" type="tns:PublisherType" use="required"/>
    <xs:attribute name="AccessCustomDriver" type="xs:boolean" />
</xs:complexType>

  <xs:simpleType name="AsciiIdentifierType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:AllowedAsciiCharSetType">
      <xs:pattern value="[^_ ]+"/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>
  
<!-- String Restriction Types definition -->
<xs:simpleType name="AllowedAsciiCharSetType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:NonEmptyStringType">
      <xs:pattern value="[-_. A-Za-z0-9]+"/>
    </xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>

<xs:simpleType name="NonEmptyStringType">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
      <xs:minLength value="1"/>
      <xs:maxLength value="32767"/>
      <xs:pattern value="[^\s]|([^\s].*[^\s])"/>
    </xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>

  <xs:simpleType name="AsciiWindowsIdType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:NonEmptyStringType">
      <xs:pattern value="([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)(\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)*"/>
      <xs:maxLength value="255"/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

<xs:simpleType name="UnicodeIdentifierType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:UnicodeIdentifierCharSetType" /> 
</xs:simpleType>

<xs:simpleType name="UnicodeIdentifierCharSetType">
  <xs:restriction base="tns:AllowedUnicodeCharSetType">
        <xs:pattern value="[^!#$%'\(\)\*\+,/:;=\?@\[\\\]^_`\|]+" /> 
  </xs:restriction>
 </xs:simpleType>

  <xs:simpleType name="AllowedUnicodeCharSetType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:UnicodeNoPrivateUseOrNonCharacterCodePointsType">
      <xs:pattern value="[^&quot;&amp;&lt;&gt;\u0000-\u0020\u007F\u0080-\u009F\u00A0\u00AD\u0340-\u0341\u034F\u06DD\u070F\u1680\u1806\u180B-\u180E\u2000-\u200F\u2028-\u202F\u205F\u2060-\u2063\u206A-\u206F\u2FF0-\u2FFB\u3000\uD800-\uDFFF\uFEFF\p{IsVariationSelectors}]+"/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

  <xs:simpleType name="UnicodeNoPrivateUseOrNonCharacterCodePointsType">
    <xs:restriction base="tns:NonEmptyStringType">
      <xs:pattern value="[^\uE000-\uF8FF\uFDD0-\uFDEF\uFFF9-\uFFFF\p{IsPrivateUse}]+"/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

</xs:schema>

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