Re: xs:choice support

I agree with Ed and Paul here.  Support for xs:choice seems fundamental. 
You could offer some advice along the lines of "You may wish to check that 
your tool supports xs:choice.  If it does not, you may wish to choose 
another tool!"  However, I wouldn't advice against using xs:choice in 
schemas.

Pete.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Paul.V.Biron@kp.org>
To: <edday@obj-sys.com>
Cc: <gcowe@origoservices.com>; <public-xsd-databinding@w3.org>; 
<public-xsd-databinding-request@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: xs:choice support


>> I have seen this mentioned as a limitation in some binding products
>> and, quite frankly, I don't understand it.  In general, all a binder
>> needs to do is examine the start tag of the element and it can
>> determine the contents.  It can then use something like a union type
>> in C to hold the different alternatives or a base class with
>> generated derived classes in an OO language.  It shouldn't be that hard
> to do.
>
> or you can always include each child of the choice as member variables and
> add a bit of conditional code to constructors and setters to keep things
> consistent.  I agree that implementing choice shouldn't be rocket science
> :-(
>
> pvb

Received on Friday, 21 April 2006 11:29:37 UTC