Scoping of Elements in an XSD Document

[Mike Morris <mo...@telcordia.com>]

Consider the following XML schema abstract: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:tns="http://automation.granite.com/service-request.xsd" targetNamespace="http://automation.granite.com/service-request">
	<xs:element name="methodCall">
		<xs:complexType>
			<xs:sequence>
				<xs:element name="methodName" type="xs:string"/>
				<xs:element name="params" type="tns:ParamsType"/>
			</xs:sequence>
		</xs:complexType>
	</xs:element> 
........................ (etc) 
When I generate XMLBeans from from the above schema and load a bean with XML based on the schema I find that I cannot reference the values (get or set) in the 'methodName' or 'params' nodes. Is this a function of the nodes being defined within the complex type? Is this a bug? Is there a way to reference these (and their child) nodes? 
I have found that if I redefine the schema like so: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:tns="http://automation.granite.com/service-request.xsd" targetNamespace="http://automation.granite.com/service-request.xsd">
	<xs:element name="methodCall">
		<xs:complexType>
			<xs:sequence>
				<xs:element ref="tns:methodName"/>
				<xs:element ref="tns:params"/>
			</xs:sequence>
		</xs:complexType>
	</xs:element>
	<xs:element name="methodName" type="xs:string"/> 
	<xs:element name="params" type="tns:ParamsType"/> 
...................... (etc) 
that I am able to reference the values of these nodes. The issue I have with this approach is that for schemas with many elements, XMLBeans generates a source, class and other files for each top-level element!   
Please advise.


Mike Morris 
Systems Integration 
Telcordia Technologies - Granite Systems SBU 
1228 Elm Street 
Manchester, NH 03101 
phone - 603-263-6462 
fax - 603-669-9839 
morrim@telcordia.com <ma...@telcordia.com>



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