Thanks for the reply. I didn't mean to imply the existence of a
well-established convention, what I mean to say was "if such a
convention existed, would it be within the philosophy of JAXB..."
It would be pretty slick I think if something like this could be done.
But as you said, you're limited by XML schema syntax.
On 9/18/06, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_sun.com> wrote:
>
> You suggested that this <properties>/<property>/<name>/<key> element
> names are well-established convention, but I'm not sure. For one thing,
> what's the namespace URI? I don't think there's a single
> well-established XML infoset representation for any Map.
>
> That said, java.util.Properties is a Map, and JAXB can conceivably
> improve the handling of Map. Today, it doesn't let you change the tag
> names of <key> nor <value>.
>
> But even with that kind of change, it would be still difficult for XJC
> to generate a Map, because schema doesn't really tell it if this
> <properties> element has a map semantics. That kind of inference is very
> hard to do, especially with languages like W3C XML Schema.
>
>
> Dale Wyttenbach wrote:
> >>Sorry, I could not understand the requirement - could you please
> > elaborate a bit?
> >
> > If you've got XML that looks like this:
> >
> > <properties>
> > <property>
> > <name>color</name>
> > <value>red</value>
> > </property>
> > <property>
> > <name>flavor</name>
> > <value>cherry</value>
> > </property>
> > </properties>
> >
> > Given the appropriate schema, xjc generates code like this:
> >
> > public PropertiesType getProperties() {
> > return properties;
> > }
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to generate this instead:
> >
> > public java.util.Properties getProperties() {
> > return properties;
> > }
> >
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