How to represent XML elements with attributes

Suppose I have the following XML:

<location>
  <coordinate format="lat-lon">a-b</coordinate>
</location>

I this the correct way to represent this using Swagger Schema objects?

---
  type: "object"
  xml: 
    name: "location"
  properties: 
    coordinate: 
      type: "string"
      properties: 
        format: 
          type: "string"
          xml: 
            attribute: true

It seems weird for the “coordinate” property … which itself is of type “string” to contain a “properties” field. Coming from JSON-Schema-Draft-V4 background, you would not expect a “string” field to have properties, because there is no such thing in JSON.

But then again, this is a “Swagger Schema Object” … not a JSON-Schema-Draft-V4. I just want confirmation whether or not this is the correct way to do it.

[MikeRalphson]

As we have the attribute property on the xml object already, perhaps it makes sense to add a text property (also of type boolean) to indicate that the property represents the xml text node, where at most only one property of an object SHOULD be marked text: true?

Thus

location:
  type: "object"
  properties: 
    coordinate: 
      type: "object"
      properties: 
        format: 
          type: "string"
          xml: 
            attribute: true 
        value: 
          type: "string"
          xml:
            text: true

would represent the xml

<location>
  <coordinate format="lat-lon">a-b</coordinate>
</location>

[dinamic]

I stumbled upon this issue today. I guess the problem is not with the attributes - they work fine, the problem is with objects that have both attributes and a value. Maybe the title of the issue could be rephrased to indicate that?

Solution wise… I’m +1 on text: true or inline: true.

How should we move this forward?