Elements

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Elements

An XML element is mapped as a field of a dynamic class.

There are three type cases for XML elements:

Simple Type--a simple element can be of two kinds:

a built-in type
a type that has been redefined by the user by inheritance

Complex Type-- represented as dynamic classes.
Collections--can be for both simple or complex types.

For complex types, the result is a vector of IlrXmlObject instances.

For simple types, there are two options:

a vector of the mapped class is used (for example, String)
for primitive types, a wrapper is used (for example, int could be mapped onto Integer)

Collections are defined by elements with attributes minOccurs or maxOccurs having a value higher than 1. In that case, such elements are mapped to Vector attributes. A List suffix is appended to the name of the element. For example:

<element name = "item" type = "item" maxOccurs="10"/>

is mapped to the attribute Vector itemList, which contains instances of the dynamic class Item.

Related Reference

Schema Member to Dynamic Class Field Name

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