Run the schema through xslt?
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Lucas Madar <lucas_at_mcsnw.com> wrote:
>
>> Essentially, annotate plugin would do what you want, the only problem
>> is that you want to parse xs:documentation elements instead of custom
>> appinfo. So the only thing you have to figure out is how to get
>> original DOM elements for documentation from XSComponent.
>> After some checking of code I'd say this is not possible at the
>> moment. XJC uses its own annotation parser to parse annotations into
>> BindInfos, documentation is presented by the
>> com.sun.tools.xjc.reader.xmlschema.bindinfo.BindInfo.Documentation
>> class.
>>
>> First problem is that this class only stores mixed content of the
>> original annotation element, no attributes (say goodbye to xml:lang).
>> Second problem is that BindInfo converts these contents to string,
>> there is no way to retrieve the original content (which can be text
>> and DOM elements).
>>
>>
> Yeah. It also appears that xjc completely disregards comments that would be
> intended solely for class fields, providing no way to access them.
>
> Would it be possible to write an xjc extension that modifies the DOM tree
> of the incoming schema? That way I could duplicate the docs into xs:appinfo
> tags and parse them with the annotate plugin. The problem is that I don't
> have control over the schema, it's published by another entity; getting them
> to add custom appinfo tags for my application wouldn't be possible. If
> that's not possible, is it possible to override xjc's schema location
> resolver?
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas
>
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