Franz,
This is an area of code I haven't worked with for a little while now, so my
knowledge is a bit rusty, but I shall try and give some responses to your
questions below.
Are ElementInfos for XML elements and AttributeInfos for XML
attributes or is this a misunderstanding on my side?
--> While I believe this was the original intent, taking a look
at the code it appears these concepts have become clouded as
the code has evolved -- although everytime I work in this area
I try to improve it a little.
In class Type elements maps names to ElementInfos, whereas
attributes maps names to Types.
Why not map names to AttributeInfos in the latter case?
--> I have a suspicion this could be because all (xml) elements
are stored in the typemap, so you use the name to lookup the
needed type, while attributes are not.
This seems to be the principal flaw to me; there is no direct
access to the attributes and their properties (isOptional for
example) in populateAttribList; only elements can be accessed
with their properties.
--> It does seem odd that we immediately work with the Type
while being able to work with AttributeInfo, that has already
been processed to give easy access to the desired properties,
would probably make more sense.
Now that my email has become enough confusing too, i think i will
give it a second try tomorrow.
As a last try for today are the following ideas sound?
AttributeInfos should be constructed from names and types like
ElementInfos (for attributes a simpler type concept than Type
would be sufficient).
If className (currently constructor argument for AttributeInfo)
is needed for source generation, it should be in the base class
ParamInfo.
--> This does seem odd, particularly as the classname used is
actually the one from the parent ParamInfo -- it really isn't
obvious to me how this is used.
In class Type, the attributes member should be a map from
String to AttributeInfo.
Regards,
Adrian
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