Hi Mark, Mark Brucks <bru...@charter.net> wrote on 10/19/2009 08:20:27 PM:
> I'm having trouble understanding how information about derived types > is maintained. I have a schema with a derived type declared, and an > instance document which uses it (via xsi:type). I know that this type > information is maintained by the DOM, because if I parse a document > and then write it back out, the type information appears in the saved > document. If you're referring to xsi:type it's an attribute like any other. If it was in the document you loaded, it will be there when you serialize it. Nothing special going on here. > How do I access this information, and how do I create an element and > specify that it is of the derived type? Add an xsi:type attribute to the element. > I currently use CoreDocImp.createElementNS to create elements, but I > can find no other method to set the elements type. Type information is available from the DOM if you've validated it. Take a look at TypeInfo [1] and Xerces' PSVI DOM [2]. > Thanks - Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/w3c/dom/TypeInfo.html [2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xs.html#faq-6 Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
