XMLBeans enforcement of xs:pattern in simple type?

[Chris Hopkins]

Hi all –



I’m working with a schema that has the following simple type:



                <xs:simpleType name="DateTimeGroupType">

                                <xs:annotation>

                                                <xs:documentation>A date
time group always in Zulu time.</xs:documentation>

                                </xs:annotation>

                                <xs:restriction base="xs:dateTime">

                  <xs:pattern
value="^(3[0-1]|2[0-9]|1[0-9]|0[1-9])(0[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3])([0-5][0-9])\sZ\s(Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)\s[0-9]{2}$"/>

                </xs:restriction>

                </xs:simpleType>



I thought, perhaps naively, that specifying a pattern would force the
XMLBeans generated classes to validate against that pattern including
producing a String representation conforming to that pattern when I call
getStringValue(). This is not the result that I’m getting but perhaps I’m
doing something wrong with the definition.



Does anyone have any insight or experience doing the same thing?



Thanks,

Chris