uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.xml.wrappers
Class XMLDSSDOMFromXSD

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.xml.wrappers.XMLDSSDOMFromXSD

public class XMLDSSDOMFromXSD
extends java.lang.Object

Parses an XML Schema and creates the corresponding XMLDSS in DOM format.

IMPORTANT: an XML Schema that passes through this algorithm with no exceptions/errors is not to be considered valid!

Features not yet supported:

• Substitution groups
• Type substitution
• Redefine elements
• Namespaces: although the class is namespace-aware, it is not yet guaranteed that it will handle namespaces well
• Any declarations

Model groups: all model group declarations are treated as 'all' model group declarations, as this is the way the XMLDSS of a given XML file would be created. This means that the special behaviour of choice group and this of nesting model groups is ignored.

Wildcards: if the XML Schema contains any element or attribute wildcards, it will obviously ignore them, as it will not know what content to create.

Ignored declarations: the following declarations are ignored, as they obviously do not contribute to the XMLDSS content.

• ID/IDREF/IDREFS
• key/keyref
• annotation
• import

Should any unexpected behaviour of the algorithm occur (error/exception/unexpected XMLDSS) please contact the author of the class, specifying the problem and supplying the XML Schema used.

Author:

Lucas Zamboulis

Constructor Summary

XMLDSSDOMFromXSD(java.lang.String URI, java.lang.String schemaName)

XMLDSSDOMFromXSD(java.lang.String URI, java.lang.String schemaName, boolean debug)

Method Summary

org.w3c.dom.Document	getSchemaDoc()
org.w3c.dom.Document	getSchemaUIDDoc()
org.w3c.dom.Document	getXSD()
org.w3c.dom.Document	translate(org.w3c.dom.Document xsd)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XMLDSSDOMFromXSD

public XMLDSSDOMFromXSD(java.lang.String URI,
                        java.lang.String schemaName,
                        boolean debug)
                 throws XMLException

Throws:

XMLException

XMLDSSDOMFromXSD

public XMLDSSDOMFromXSD(java.lang.String URI,
                        java.lang.String schemaName)
                 throws XMLException

Parameters:

URI - the URI where the XML Schema is located; must be prefixed http:// if it is a URL, or file:/// if it is local.

Throws:

XMLException

Method Detail

translate

public org.w3c.dom.Document translate(org.w3c.dom.Document xsd)
                               throws XMLException,
                                      java.io.IOException

Parameters:

xsd - the XML Schema to be translated into XMLDSS

Returns:

the XMLDSS corresponding to the input XML Schema, in DOM format

Throws:

XMLException

java.io.IOException

getXSD

public org.w3c.dom.Document getXSD()

Returns:

the input XML Schema in DOM format

getSchemaUIDDoc

public org.w3c.dom.Document getSchemaUIDDoc()

Returns:

the DOM XMLDSS schema WITH UIDs

getSchemaDoc

public org.w3c.dom.Document getSchemaDoc()

Returns:

the XMLDSS schema WITHOUT UIDs.