Ok, I figured it out. <element name='square'> <complexType mixed='true'> <attribute name='height' type='string' use='required'/> </complexType> </element>
Will give me a castor object with a getContent method, which I have my fun with. I found a neat perl script at that turns DTDs into schemas, an invaluable tool for something like castor. I don't know much about defining schemas, but this tool does -- thank goodness! I highly recommend you check it in or link it from your website. Here's where I got it: http://xml.coverpages.org/dtd2xsd-pl.txt You don't have to support it, but if you make it available, you don't have to work as hard to support guys like me (which number in the thousands). Thanks everyone! Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 4:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [castor-dev] Trouble with schema > > > Thanks Ben, > > So what about when I don't want my "any" data to be parsed as well formed > XML? Is it possible to get the data as bytes? > > > -Michael > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3:34 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [castor-dev] Trouble with schema > > > > > > > > > > >The getAnyObject returns a java.lang.Object instance, fine. But what > > object > > >class is castor instantiating and putting my xml data into? > > > > > >Also, getAnyObject returns an array, why is that? How could > it consider > > >verything between the <square></square> tags as anything other than one > > >large blob? > > > > It is an 'AnyNode' class which comes with castor. The array is > > for when you > > have something like <square><p>aoeu</p><p>aoeu</p></square>. > Then each p > > becomes an 'AnyNode' instance. If you do a toString on either instance, > > you'll get back the string <p>aoeu</p>. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > > unsubscribe castor-dev > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > unsubscribe castor-dev _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-dev
