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Suggestions and Requests / BUG: No global element for XSD Simple Types

« on: November 01, 2006, 04:53:40 pm »

The XML schema generated for XSD Simple Types should have a global element automatically generated as well.

Global elements are generated for complex types but not for simple types. Example ....

Code: [Select]


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="Test" type="Test"/>
<xs:complexType name="Test">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Benutzer" type="Benutzer" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:simpleType name="Benutzer">
<xs:restriction base="xs:string"/>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:schema>


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Suggestions and Requests / Additional XSD design patterns ...

« on: October 31, 2006, 03:05:01 pm »

Currently, EA can only generate XSD in the Garden Of Eden design pattern.

It would be great of the user could choose to generate the code in the Venetian Blind pattern - which is by far the most popular pattern in use today.

Thank you.

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General Board / Re: XSD design pattern ...

« on: October 23, 2006, 10:28:46 pm »

Ok, no problem. Thanks for replying and letting me know the right course of action.

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General Board / Re: XSD design pattern ...

« on: October 23, 2006, 05:14:59 pm »

Can anyone from EA please reply ? Thanks !

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General Board / XSD design pattern ...

« on: October 17, 2006, 07:09:35 pm »

Hi,

EA currently generates XSDs using the Garden of Eden design pattern.

But most of my clients use the Venetian Blind design pattern as company standard.

Is Sparx / EA planning to include an option for choosing the XML Schema design pattern to use ? It would be great to have some flexibility.

Thanks !

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General Board / Re: Package includes in XML UML Modelling ...

« on: October 10, 2006, 05:33:13 pm »

Ah ok, I see where I went wrong now.

I had the targetNamespace defined correctly but I was missing the extra tagged value for "schemaLocation" for the package to be included.

Thanks for the help !

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General Board / Package includes in XML UML Modelling ...

« on: October 03, 2006, 07:09:59 pm »

Hi all,

I've been trying out UML modelling for XML schema and hitting a basic (?) problem.

I've created a simple class diagram and included (by drag drop as a Simple link) an XSD element from another package onto the class diagram.

According to EA help file, this should cause code generation to automatically produce an "xsd:include" statement for the linked package in the schema.

But it doesn't and as a result the XML schema is not valid the XSD element being referenced is not defined.

Is there a setting in EA that I missed or am I missing the point completely ?

Can someone please help ? Thanks !

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: xsd element name different to complextype name

« on: January 14, 2008, 04:41:22 pm »

It appears that I can't turn off the automatic creation of elements with the same name as a complexType. And it puts the top-level element at the bottom rather than at the top, where it is supposed to go.

This is a real pain for me as well. With the XML Schema that EA generates, there's no way of easily telling which element is meant to be the top-level element (as all the elements are top level!).

Is there a way of forcing EA to put a specified element to the top ? Anyone ? Thanks !

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: XSD Generation Problem

« on: November 01, 2006, 04:42:27 pm »

Hi Christian,

EA does automatically generate the "type=" in the definition of the complex type.

If you create a Complex Type class associated with a Simple Type class, you should get the following XSD which I think is what you are looking for.

Code: [Select]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="Test" type="Test"/>
<xs:complexType name="Test">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Benutzer" type="Benutzer" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:simpleType name="Benutzer">
<xs:restriction base="xs:string"/>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:schema>

If you can post a link to your UML model image somewhere, I'll see if I can help you.

On your other question about the Simple Type global element, I agree with you. In a Garden Of Eden design pattern, a global element should be generated for the simple type and I can't seem to find a way to force EA to do it either.

Perhaps a bug ?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Copy and paste class diagram ...

« on: October 10, 2006, 05:21:43 pm »

Excellent. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks !

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Copy and paste class diagram ...

« on: October 04, 2006, 11:05:13 pm »

When I copy and paste a class diagram into a Word document, EA automatically puts a title like ("cdExample") on the top left hand corner of the image.

How do I get rid of it ? Thanks !