Hello, I am experimenting with the DatatypeDocumentFactory and its schema support and noticed the following limitation: lack of support for the xsi:type attribute on document instances.
For example, it would be nice to be able to specify in an xml document something like: <mydoc xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> <intvalue xsi:type="int">1234</intvalue> </mydoc> Then, in dom4j be able to select the <intvalue> Node using the DatatypeDocumentFactory and call its getData() method. At first glance I thought it would be easy to handle this by subclassing the DatatypeDocumentFactory, but it appears that elements are constructed solely on there QName and not on any document instance type information. This is also a problem if your schema declares an element to be abstract and the document instance must choose the appropriate concrete type; e.g. <address xsi:type="USAddress">...</address> <address xsi:type="UKAddress">...</address> I am rather new to dom4j so perhaps I missed something obvious in using the DatatypeDocumentFactory. P.S. At first glance it seems odd that QName is not an immutable object. Calling setDocumentFactory on a QName feels wrong to me. But again, this is coming from someone completely new to working with dom4j! Cheers, --mike _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev
