Hi Mathis, Mathis Kueckens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/12/2006 11:50:57 AM:
> > hi, > for my diploma thesis I'm programming a transformation tool, that > transforms XML schemas to UML > class diagrams. > For traversing the xml schema structure I use the xerces xml schema api. > > Currently I try to transform keyref-to-key-relations into uml > associations. Therefore I need to > resolve the Xpath expressions within the IdentityConstraint expressions > (XSIDCDefinition) to get > the attributes/elements the key/keyRef-Element is assigned to. > > I tried to use the "org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.identity" package that > implements the key-keyref > concept. So far I didn't reach my goal. > > My question: > Is this package (maybe with interaction to other XPath implementations) is > able to resolve the > xpath expressions (within <xs:selector>- and <xs:field>-elements) to > resolve the attribue/element > declaration (XSAttributeDeclaration, XSElementDeclaration) it belongs to? There's nothing in the API which does this. You'd have to walk the XSModel yourself (taking into account wildcards, substitution groups and possible values for xsi:type) to determine which declared attributes/elements could match a selector/field XPath. > Thank You > > Mathis > > ------------------------------ > Technical University of Berlin > Germany > ------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
