Ah...right...I forgot about that aspect of restrictions. Thanks for the clarification!
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Cezar Andrei <cezar.and...@oracle.com>wrote: > Chris, > > > > If you check the XMLSchema spec: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime 3.2.7.1 explains the lexical > representation of datetime. This '-'? yyyy '-' mm '-' dd 'T' hh ':' mm ':' > ss ('.' s+)? (zzzzzz)? is the production that you can restrict in a > derived restriction. If you don’t restrict using that production no instance > will match it, so you’ll have a type with no valid values. > > > > As for XMLBeans serializing according to a pattern, it will as long as the > instance is a valid instance of the defined type. > > > > Also check the definition of pattern: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dt-pattern > > > > I hope this helps, > > Cezar > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Chris Hopkins [mailto:chrishopk...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:10 PM > > *To:* user@xmlbeans.apache.org > *Subject:* XMLBeans enforcement of xs:pattern in simple type? > > > > Hi all – > > > > I’m working with a schema that has the following simple type: > > > > <xs:simpleType name="DateTimeGroupType"> > > <xs:annotation> > > <xs:documentation>A date > time group always in Zulu time.</xs:documentation> > > </xs:annotation> > > <xs:restriction base="xs:dateTime"> > > <xs:pattern > value="^(3[0-1]|2[0-9]|1[0-9]|0[1-9])(0[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3])([0-5][0-9])\sZ\s(Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)\s[0-9]{2}$"/> > > </xs:restriction> > > </xs:simpleType> > > > > I thought, perhaps naively, that specifying a pattern would force the > XMLBeans generated classes to validate against that pattern including > producing a String representation conforming to that pattern when I call > getStringValue(). This is not the result that I’m getting but perhaps I’m > doing something wrong with the definition. > > > > Does anyone have any insight or experience doing the same thing? > > > > Thanks, > > Chris >
