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questions on XMLBeans
I am evaluating XMLBeans for one of the projects. I have a few
questions:
1) Does XML Beans provide any utility/hooks to compare two
different schema files?
2) If my XML document deviates slightly from the underlying
schema, can I still load it using XMLBeans... some sort of best effort
XML to Java mapping?
Thanks.
Re: questions on XMLBeans
Posted by Jacob Danner <ja...@gmail.com>.
For your revised item #1, there is a cmd line tool called sfactor that
might get you what you want.
Here's the usage:
xmlbeans/trunk/bin>sfactor
Refactors a directory of XSD files to remove name conflicts.
Usage: sfactor [-import common.xsd] [-out outputdir] inputdir
-import common.xsd - The XSD file to contain redundant
definitions for importing.
-out outputdir - The directory into which to place XSD
files resulting from refactoring,
plus a commonly imported common.xsd.
inputdir - The directory containing the XSD files with
redundant definitions.
-license - Print license information.
Best of luck,
-Jacob Danner
On 5/17/07, Radu Preotiuc-Pietro <ra...@bea.com> wrote:
>
>
> 1) No. There is no algorithm defined for doing a semantic diff between two
> Schemas, so we didn't spend the time to implement anything in this area. (as
> you have seen yourself, you don't even need a diff after all, but something
> different) But using the SchemaType API you have all you need to implement
> some custom logic appropriate to your use-case.
>
> 2) Yes, XmlBeans fully supports loading and manipulating invalid Schema
> documents.
>
> Radu
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:12 AM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
>
>
>
>
>
> Let me further qualify point number 1 below. What I really need to do is
> compare the two schemas and come up with a 3rd one which contains only the
> common definitions.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>
> From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: questions on XMLBeans
>
>
>
> I am evaluating XMLBeans for one of the projects. I have a few questions:
>
>
>
> 1) Does XML Beans provide any utility/hooks to compare two different
> schema files?
>
> 2) If my XML document deviates slightly from the underlying schema,
> can I still load it using XMLBeans… some sort of best effort XML to Java
> mapping?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
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RE: questions on XMLBeans
Posted by Radu Preotiuc-Pietro <ra...@bea.com>.
That's not a problem. You would need to generate the containing
<xsd:schema> element yourself and then add type/element nodes to it.
Once you have that piece in place, the prefix declaration will show up
on the <xsd:schema> element. The prefix declaration has to appear
somewhere.
Radu
-----Original Message-----
From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:37 PM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
Thanks again.
1. Yes.
2. Cool. That was really helpful. I was able to manipulate at DOM nodes
level to experiment generating my common.xsd. I still need to learn
cursor API. But I have a follow up question. My original XSD and
generated XSD files have slightly different structure. Are there any
options to save the generated XSD in the original format?
ORIGINAL XSD (just a snippet from the original)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:complexType name="configClassesType">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xsd:element name="Cluster" type="ClusterType" />
<xsd:element name="LocalBox" type="LocalBoxType" />
<xsd:element name="Services" type="ServicesType" />
</xsd:choice>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
And GENERATED one (again the corresponding snippet)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:complexType name="configClassesType"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xsd:element name="Cluster" type="ClusterType"/>
<xsd:element name="LocalBox" type="LocalBoxType"/>
<xsd:element name="Services" type="ServicesType"/>
</xsd:choice>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Difference: difference is that the enclosing element '<xsd:schema
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">' is gone from the
generated one and instead it gets added to each global type element as
an attribute.
-----Original Message-----
From: Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [mailto:radup@bea.com]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:34 PM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
Answers:
1. There is nothing special about simple types, so you would need to
decide the criteria to use (like facets and derivation). I would point
out however that minOccurs and maxOccurs are applicable for Schema
Properties in general, regardless if they are elements or not and
regardless of the their type (if they are elements).
2. Yeah, that is the basic answer. But, since you've asked, there is one
small thing that I usually don't recommend, but in your case I'm making
an exception because it could prove immensely useful: ((SchemaTypeImpl)
schemaType).getParseObject(). This is NOT guaranteed to be non-null
(depending on how you built your Schemas) but if it is non-null, it will
contain the XML representation (as an XmlObject) of the Schema type in
question (there is a similar method for SchemaGlobalElementImpl)
Good luck with your project,
Radu
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:54 -0400, Ajay Aggarwal wrote:
> Thanks Radu.
>
>
>
> So in order to compare 2 schemas for my use case, I am first building
> the SchemaTypeSystem for each one and then recursively identifying the
> commonalities and differences between document types, global attribute
> types and global types. In order to compare two SchemaTypes, I am
> recursively comparing their Attributes and Element Properties. In
> order to compare two SchemaProperties, I am checking if they are
> simple or complex. If complex I will recursively call compare on their
> SchemaTypes. For simple properties, I have question-1 below:
>
>
>
> Question 1: How do I compare 2 simple SchemaProperties? Is their a
> built-in function or do I need to compare myself their SchemaType,
> DefaultText, MinOccurs, MaxOccurs etc?
>
>
>
> Question 2: While doing above comparison, I need to build a
> common.xsd, which will contain only the common definitions from two
> schemas. As I identify the common types using above recursive
> algorithm, how do I write out the common.xsd? I didn't see any call to
> say remove a property from a SchemaType. Is XmlCursor API the answer
> to create and write the common.xsd? Is that the only answer?
>
>
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>
> -Ajay
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [mailto:radup@bea.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:38 PM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
>
>
>
>
> 1) No. There is no algorithm defined for doing a semantic diff between
> two Schemas, so we didn't spend the time to implement anything in this
> area. (as you have seen yourself, you don't even need a diff after
> all, but something different) But using the SchemaType API you have
> all you need to implement some custom logic appropriate to your
> use-case.
>
>
>
> 2) Yes, XmlBeans fully supports loading and manipulating invalid
> Schema documents.
>
>
>
> Radu
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:12 AM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
>
> Let me further qualify point number 1 below. What I really need to do
> is compare the two schemas and come up with a 3rd one which contains
> only the common definitions.
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: questions on XMLBeans
>
>
>
>
> I am evaluating XMLBeans for one of the projects. I have a few
> questions:
>
>
>
> 1) Does XML Beans provide any utility/hooks to compare two
> different schema files?
>
> 2) If my XML document deviates slightly from the underlying
> schema, can I still load it using XMLBeans... some sort of best effort
> XML to Java mapping?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain
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RE: questions on XMLBeans
Posted by Ajay Aggarwal <aa...@covergence.com>.
Thanks again.
1. Yes.
2. Cool. That was really helpful. I was able to manipulate at DOM nodes
level to experiment generating my common.xsd. I still need to learn
cursor API. But I have a follow up question. My original XSD and
generated XSD files have slightly different structure. Are there any
options to save the generated XSD in the original format?
ORIGINAL XSD (just a snippet from the original)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:complexType name="configClassesType">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xsd:element name="Cluster" type="ClusterType" />
<xsd:element name="LocalBox" type="LocalBoxType" />
<xsd:element name="Services" type="ServicesType" />
</xsd:choice>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
And GENERATED one (again the corresponding snippet)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:complexType name="configClassesType"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xsd:element name="Cluster" type="ClusterType"/>
<xsd:element name="LocalBox" type="LocalBoxType"/>
<xsd:element name="Services" type="ServicesType"/>
</xsd:choice>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Difference: difference is that the enclosing element '<xsd:schema
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">' is gone from the
generated one and instead it gets added to each global type element as
an attribute.
-----Original Message-----
From: Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [mailto:radup@bea.com]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:34 PM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
Answers:
1. There is nothing special about simple types, so you would need to
decide the criteria to use (like facets and derivation). I would point
out however that minOccurs and maxOccurs are applicable for Schema
Properties in general, regardless if they are elements or not and
regardless of the their type (if they are elements).
2. Yeah, that is the basic answer. But, since you've asked, there is one
small thing that I usually don't recommend, but in your case I'm making
an exception because it could prove immensely useful: ((SchemaTypeImpl)
schemaType).getParseObject(). This is NOT guaranteed to be non-null
(depending on how you built your Schemas) but if it is non-null, it will
contain the XML representation (as an XmlObject) of the Schema type in
question (there is a similar method for SchemaGlobalElementImpl)
Good luck with your project,
Radu
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:54 -0400, Ajay Aggarwal wrote:
> Thanks Radu.
>
>
>
> So in order to compare 2 schemas for my use case, I am first building
> the SchemaTypeSystem for each one and then recursively identifying the
> commonalities and differences between document types, global attribute
> types and global types. In order to compare two SchemaTypes, I am
> recursively comparing their Attributes and Element Properties. In
> order to compare two SchemaProperties, I am checking if they are
> simple or complex. If complex I will recursively call compare on their
> SchemaTypes. For simple properties, I have question-1 below:
>
>
>
> Question 1: How do I compare 2 simple SchemaProperties? Is their a
> built-in function or do I need to compare myself their SchemaType,
> DefaultText, MinOccurs, MaxOccurs etc?
>
>
>
> Question 2: While doing above comparison, I need to build a
> common.xsd, which will contain only the common definitions from two
> schemas. As I identify the common types using above recursive
> algorithm, how do I write out the common.xsd? I didn't see any call to
> say remove a property from a SchemaType. Is XmlCursor API the answer
> to create and write the common.xsd? Is that the only answer?
>
>
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>
> -Ajay
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [mailto:radup@bea.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:38 PM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
>
>
>
>
> 1) No. There is no algorithm defined for doing a semantic diff between
> two Schemas, so we didn't spend the time to implement anything in this
> area. (as you have seen yourself, you don't even need a diff after
> all, but something different) But using the SchemaType API you have
> all you need to implement some custom logic appropriate to your
> use-case.
>
>
>
> 2) Yes, XmlBeans fully supports loading and manipulating invalid
> Schema documents.
>
>
>
> Radu
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:12 AM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
>
> Let me further qualify point number 1 below. What I really need to do
> is compare the two schemas and come up with a 3rd one which contains
> only the common definitions.
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: questions on XMLBeans
>
>
>
>
> I am evaluating XMLBeans for one of the projects. I have a few
> questions:
>
>
>
> 1) Does XML Beans provide any utility/hooks to compare two
> different schema files?
>
> 2) If my XML document deviates slightly from the underlying
> schema, can I still load it using XMLBeans... some sort of best effort
> XML to Java mapping?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain
> information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated
> entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or
> legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the
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> intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please
> immediately return this by email and then delete it.
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RE: questions on XMLBeans
Posted by Radu Preotiuc-Pietro <ra...@bea.com>.
Answers:
1. There is nothing special about simple types, so you would need to
decide the criteria to use (like facets and derivation). I would point
out however that minOccurs and maxOccurs are applicable for Schema
Properties in general, regardless if they are elements or not and
regardless of the their type (if they are elements).
2. Yeah, that is the basic answer. But, since you've asked, there is one
small thing that I usually don't recommend, but in your case I'm making
an exception because it could prove immensely useful: ((SchemaTypeImpl)
schemaType).getParseObject(). This is NOT guaranteed to be non-null
(depending on how you built your Schemas) but if it is non-null, it will
contain the XML representation (as an XmlObject) of the Schema type in
question (there is a similar method for SchemaGlobalElementImpl)
Good luck with your project,
Radu
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:54 -0400, Ajay Aggarwal wrote:
> Thanks Radu.
>
>
>
> So in order to compare 2 schemas for my use case, I am first building
> the SchemaTypeSystem for each one and then recursively identifying the
> commonalities and differences between document types, global attribute
> types and global types. In order to compare two SchemaTypes, I am
> recursively comparing their Attributes and Element Properties. In
> order to compare two SchemaProperties, I am checking if they are
> simple or complex. If complex I will recursively call compare on their
> SchemaTypes. For simple properties, I have question-1 below:
>
>
>
> Question 1: How do I compare 2 simple SchemaProperties? Is their a
> built-in function or do I need to compare myself their SchemaType,
> DefaultText, MinOccurs, MaxOccurs etc?
>
>
>
> Question 2: While doing above comparison, I need to build a
> common.xsd, which will contain only the common definitions from two
> schemas. As I identify the common types using above recursive
> algorithm, how do I write out the common.xsd? I didn’t see any call to
> say remove a property from a SchemaType. Is XmlCursor API the answer
> to create and write the common.xsd? Is that the only answer?
>
>
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>
> -Ajay
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [mailto:radup@bea.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:38 PM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
>
>
>
>
> 1) No. There is no algorithm defined for doing a semantic diff between
> two Schemas, so we didn't spend the time to implement anything in this
> area. (as you have seen yourself, you don't even need a diff after
> all, but something different) But using the SchemaType API you have
> all you need to implement some custom logic appropriate to your
> use-case.
>
>
>
> 2) Yes, XmlBeans fully supports loading and manipulating invalid
> Schema documents.
>
>
>
> Radu
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:12 AM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
>
> Let me further qualify point number 1 below. What I really need to do
> is compare the two schemas and come up with a 3rd one which contains
> only the common definitions.
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
> Subject: questions on XMLBeans
>
>
>
>
> I am evaluating XMLBeans for one of the projects. I have a few
> questions:
>
>
>
> 1) Does XML Beans provide any utility/hooks to compare two
> different schema files?
>
> 2) If my XML document deviates slightly from the underlying
> schema, can I still load it using XMLBeans… some sort of best effort
> XML to Java mapping?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain
> information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated
> entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or
> legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the
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> intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please
> immediately return this by email and then delete it.
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RE: questions on XMLBeans
Posted by Ajay Aggarwal <aa...@covergence.com>.
Thanks Radu.
So in order to compare 2 schemas for my use case, I am first building
the SchemaTypeSystem for each one and then recursively identifying the
commonalities and differences between document types, global attribute
types and global types. In order to compare two SchemaTypes, I am
recursively comparing their Attributes and Element Properties. In order
to compare two SchemaProperties, I am checking if they are simple or
complex. If complex I will recursively call compare on their
SchemaTypes. For simple properties, I have question-1 below:
Question 1: How do I compare 2 simple SchemaProperties? Is their a
built-in function or do I need to compare myself their SchemaType,
DefaultText, MinOccurs, MaxOccurs etc?
Question 2: While doing above comparison, I need to build a common.xsd,
which will contain only the common definitions from two schemas. As I
identify the common types using above recursive algorithm, how do I
write out the common.xsd? I didn't see any call to say remove a property
from a SchemaType. Is XmlCursor API the answer to create and write the
common.xsd? Is that the only answer?
Thanks again.
-Ajay
________________________________
From: Radu Preotiuc-Pietro [mailto:radup@bea.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:38 PM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
1) No. There is no algorithm defined for doing a semantic diff between
two Schemas, so we didn't spend the time to implement anything in this
area. (as you have seen yourself, you don't even need a diff after all,
but something different) But using the SchemaType API you have all you
need to implement some custom logic appropriate to your use-case.
2) Yes, XmlBeans fully supports loading and manipulating invalid Schema
documents.
Radu
________________________________
From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:12 AM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
Let me further qualify point number 1 below. What I really need to do is
compare the two schemas and come up with a 3rd one which contains only
the common definitions.
________________________________
From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:05 AM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: questions on XMLBeans
I am evaluating XMLBeans for one of the projects. I have a few
questions:
1) Does XML Beans provide any utility/hooks to compare two
different schema files?
2) If my XML document deviates slightly from the underlying
schema, can I still load it using XMLBeans... some sort of best effort
XML to Java mapping?
Thanks.
Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain
information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated
entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or
legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual
or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient,
and have received this message in error, please immediately return this
by email and then delete it.
RE: questions on XMLBeans
Posted by Radu Preotiuc-Pietro <ra...@bea.com>.
1) No. There is no algorithm defined for doing a semantic diff between
two Schemas, so we didn't spend the time to implement anything in this
area. (as you have seen yourself, you don't even need a diff after all,
but something different) But using the SchemaType API you have all you
need to implement some custom logic appropriate to your use-case.
2) Yes, XmlBeans fully supports loading and manipulating invalid Schema
documents.
Radu
________________________________
From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:12 AM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: RE: questions on XMLBeans
Let me further qualify point number 1 below. What I really need to do is
compare the two schemas and come up with a 3rd one which contains only
the common definitions.
________________________________
From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:05 AM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: questions on XMLBeans
I am evaluating XMLBeans for one of the projects. I have a few
questions:
1) Does XML Beans provide any utility/hooks to compare two
different schema files?
2) If my XML document deviates slightly from the underlying
schema, can I still load it using XMLBeans... some sort of best effort
XML to Java mapping?
Thanks.
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RE: questions on XMLBeans
Posted by Ajay Aggarwal <aa...@covergence.com>.
Let me further qualify point number 1 below. What I really need to do is
compare the two schemas and come up with a 3rd one which contains only
the common definitions.
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From: Ajay Aggarwal [mailto:aaggarwal@covergence.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:05 AM
To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org
Subject: questions on XMLBeans
I am evaluating XMLBeans for one of the projects. I have a few
questions:
1) Does XML Beans provide any utility/hooks to compare two
different schema files?
2) If my XML document deviates slightly from the underlying
schema, can I still load it using XMLBeans... some sort of best effort
XML to Java mapping?
Thanks.