Re: [webbeans-dev] Typing of XML elements

s/Pete/Nik/ :-) I'm just proxying Nik's questions for some reason here... On 19 Mar 2009, at 15:06, Gavin King wrote: > Pete, my memory is there are 2 or 3 ways to do "inheritance" in XML > schemas. I recommend you buy a book on this and read it :) > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> >> On 18 Mar 2009, at 04:38, Jason T. Greene wrote: >> >>> Pete Muir wrote: >>>> Hi Norman, and other XML experts, >>>> One of the tasks for Web Beans is to build an XSD. There is an >>>> XSD per package, and an root-element per class. Classes can have >>>> annotations, such as bindings, which makes them into a bean. This >>>> means, for example, that a child element of the class element >>>> could be a binding type annotation (it's XML element equivalent), >>>> however placing, for example, an annotation which is not, for >>>> example, a binding type would be an error. >>>> Therefore, we can increase the "type safety" of the XSD by >>>> restricting the category of child elements that can be placed in >>>> the class element. However, I don't know how to do this in XSD - >>>> any pointers? >>> >>> I'm not sure I understand what you want, however it sounds like a >>> substitution group. Can you give an example? >> >> For example in package com.acme >> >> class Foo { >> >> >> } >> >> could be described by XML: >> >> <acme:Foo> >> >> </acme:Foo> >> >> Now, I want to add the binding com.acme.sales.Bar to the Foo class: >> >> <acme:Foo> >> <sales:Bar /> >> </acme:Foo> >> >> In other words, any binding type can be inserted as a child element >> to a class. So, we need a way to identify this as a point that any >> binding type can be inserted. >> >> Does this explain it better? >> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jason T. Greene >>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat >> >> -- >> Pete Muir >> http://www.seamframework.org >> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webbeans-dev mailing list >> webbeans-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/webbeans-dev -- Pete Muir http://www.seamframework.org http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete _______________________________________________ webbeans-dev mailing list webbeans-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/webbeans-dev