Unfortunately, RSS 2.0 and Atom are not XSD friendly, that is, you
can't write proper strict XSD to describe either. Rather you have to
write a lax XSD, which has been done. The best such lax schema was
written by Jorgen Thelin.
http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/weblog/archives/2003/06/000187.html
Hope this helps,

Randy
http://www.kbcafe.com

--- In RSS2-Support@yahoogroups.com, "eogreen71" <eogreen71@y...>
wrote:
>
> In developing a client aggregator for RSS 2.0, I have noticed that
> different RSS providers on the web order their XML elements
> differently. This breaks my XML processor (JAXB) because the XML
> schema that I developed can't handle the different element ordering
> across different streams. Has anyone faced a similar problem?
>
> Thx,
> Eric Green
> Austin, TX