Mapping XSD to BPM Components

This sections explains how XML Schema Definition (XSD) types map to BPM components and PBL types when cataloging XSD components.

The document structures defined in the XSD are converted to regular BPM components.

For each complex XSD type, a new BPM Component is generated. XML elements and XML attributes become attributes of the BPM components. All generated XSD components inherit from the standard Fuego.Xml.XMLObject component (refer to the Oracle BPM Components Reference).

If the type of an XML element is complex, then the type of the associated component attribute will be of that of the component created for that complex type. For example, if a complex <customer> element includes a complex <address> element, you get two BPM components (Customer and Address) and the Customer component contains an attribute named address of type Address.

Renamed elements and attributes

The naming conventions on Java and PBL dictate that component names should start with uppercase letters and attribute names should start with lowercase letters. All names should use "camel-case" to separate words and not use underscores ("_").

When cataloging XSDs, the generated components' attributes will follow Java conventions and the original XML element and attribute names will be converted if necessary.

For example, if an XSD defines an type named purchase_order, the corresponding BPM component is named PurchaseOrder.

Simple XSD to PBL types

Simple XML types are mapped to simple PBL as defined in the following table:

XSD Type	PBL Type
base64Binary	Binary
hexBinary	Binary
anyURI	String
anguage	String
normalizedString	String
string	String
token	String
byte	Int(8)
decimal	Decimal
double	Real
float	Real(32)
int	Int
integer	int(64)
long	int(64)
negativeInteger	Int(64)
nonNegativeInteger	Int(64)
nonPositiveInteger	Int(64)
positiveInteger	Int(64)
short	Int(16)
unsignedByte	Int(8)
unsignedInt	Int
unsignedLong	Int(64)
unsignedShort	Int(16)
date	Time
dateTime	Time
duration	Interval
gDay	Int
gMonth	Int
gMonthDay	Time
gYear	Int(16)
gYearMonth	Time
time	Time
anyType	Fuego.Xml.XMLObject
anySimpleType	String
Name	String
NCName	String
NOTATION	String
QName	String
ENTITY	String
ENTITIES	String[]
ID	String
IDREF	String
IDREFS	String[]
NMTOKEN	String
NMTOKENS	String[]