From: Andrew Ferguson <Andrew.Ferguson_at_arm.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:37:16 +0100

hi,
 
 I think I've found a problem with the Validator generated for some
classes, where by if you have a container element C, and a subchild D
which you repeat in the form
 
    <C>
        <D/>
        <D/>
    </C>
 
then the validator keeps track of objects (identity-wise) that it has
already seen, so when it comes to the 2nd occurrence (but same object
instance) of D it thinks it has found a cycle and complains..
 
ie the XML object tree would be created by code like
 
    ObjectFactory factory = new ObjectFactory();
    C c = factory.createC();
    D d = factory.createD();
    .. setup d ..
    c.getD().add(d);
    c.getD().add(d);
    
    Validator v = ...
    v.validate(c); // throws a validation error complaining about a
cycle
 
does this sound reasonable/the correct behaviour?
 
I've worked-around this (or fixed my code..) by cloning "d", ie
 
    ObjectFactory factory = new ObjectFactory();
    C c = factory.createC();
    D d1 = factory.createD();
    D d2 = factory.createD();
    .. setup d1 ..
    .. setup d2 ..
    c.getD().add(d1);
    c.getD().add(d2);
    
    Validator v = ...
    v.validate(c);
 
thanks,
Andrew