[webbeans-dev] Typing of XML elements

[Jason T. Greene]

IIRC Substitution groups are the only way you can have validated 
extensible element inheritance. Groups and choices prevent 
extensibility, wildcards limit validation, and type based inheritance 
require fixed element names.

Pete Muir wrote:
> Yes, that would be one way to implement it. Though I would properly do 
> this under the ee namespace...
> 
> On 20 Mar 2009, at 07:14, Nicklas Karlsson wrote:
> 
>> Back to the issue at hand ;-)
>>
>> So. Is my understanding correct that we would have one hand-written
>> webbeans.xsd somewhere that defines that a beanType can have children
>> that are constructor parameters, methods and fields and they have
>> corresponding methodType, fieldType etc that describe them and then
>> the schema.xsd:s which are generated dynamically just describe the
>> structure of the classes and refer to wb:beanType, wb:fieldType,
>> wb:methodType etc?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Jason T. Greene
>> <jason.greene at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Jason T. Greene wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <xs:element name="bindingElement" type="bindingType"/>
>>>>
>>>> <xs:complexType name="classType">
>>>>  <xs:sequence>
>>>>    <xs:element ref="bindingElement"/>
>>>>  </xs:sequence>
>>>> </xs:complexType>
>>>>
>>>> // in the sales namespace
>>>> <xs:element name="Bar" substitutionGroup="webbeans:bindingElement"/>
>>>>
>>>> // in the acme namespace
>>>> <xs:element name="Foo" type="classType"/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You also want to make bindingElement abstract (abstract=true).
>>>
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