That Cezar -
This definately helps me understand what is going on.
I still find it a little frustrating that I cannot construct a
3) from an 'interior' type (i.e. no *Document class); without knowing
either an enclosing element name from some doc-type that uses these; or
the QName to use.
I don't care if they parse right away (and besides, I can make them
parse with the right namespace decl) - I want to do this so I can place
these in a parent node/element that is typed as xs:any.
Anything XmlBeans could do to make xs:any support easier, even if it is
just through convienence classes that assume some pattern of xs:any
usage would be very helpful.
As an example of a pattern, all the objects in a schema that have an
xs:any element inherit from a base type like:
<complexType name="ExtensibleType">
<sequence>
<any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"
processContents="lax"/>
</sequence>
<anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
</complexType>
which means that xs:any elements are always the first elements in any
type that extends. This makes it deterministic as to where to insert and
where to read these 'extrinsically' typed elements. One could imagine
an extension to support this idiom - sort of like JAXB's support.
Thanks for listening, and helping,
--Kent
Cezar Andrei wrote:
Kent,
The XmlObject interface always represents the content, it does not
represent the node itself as in DOM.
There are three different types of XmlObject:
1) content of an element: i.e. attributes, inner elements and inner
text, without the element name.
2) simple type content: i.e. text, can be the content of an attribute,
or a text only element. The java objects representing this type of
content will implement SimpleValue interface.
3) content of a document: i.e. only one root element. The corresponding
java type will have the suffix 'Document' in the name.
For 3) XmlObject.toString() will return the entire document
representation.
But for 1) and 2), because they represent inner parts of a document,
XmlObject.toString() will insert the representation of the content
inside an <xml-fragment> element, so it can be parsed by any xml parser.
There are options to change the name of the 'xml-fragment' name:
XmlOptions.setSaveSyntheticDocumentElement(QName name) and
XmlOptions.setSaveOuter().
I hope this helps you.
Cezar
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