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I HAVE SPECIALIZED IN JAVA TECHNOLOGY. MY MAIN RESEARCH AREA IS DESCRIPTION LOGIC(DL) AND DL BASED SEMANTIC WEB.
HOWEVER, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES SUCH AS XP, RUP AND AGILE ARE OTHER INTERESTED AREAS. MY FAVORITE
TECHNOLOGIES ARE JAVA/J2EE, WEB SERVICES, WEB FRAMEWORKS (STRUTS), SPRING, HIBERNATE, AND ADOBE TECHNOLOGIES
(ACTIONSCRIPT 3, FLEX, SMARTFORMS, LIVECYCLE DESIGNER ES, BLAZEDS). I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE MORE THAN THAT WITH YOU.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Learn XML Schema by Example: 2 Polymorphism

In the previous blog, Learn XML Schema by Example: 1. Complex type, I introduced the very simple idea of
ComplexType in Schema. In this blog, I am going to introduce idea of polymorphism which is one of the very
important concept in Object orientation.

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As shown in the above figure, I need Address to be replaced by AUAddress or USAddress in the instance xml
file. All the Address, USAddress and AUAddress are complex types in the XML schema. These types are
defined in the address.xsd file as shown in the following code.
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<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf8"?>
<xs:schemaxmlns="http://www.ojitha.org/address"targetNamespace="http://www.ojitha.org/add
elementFormDefault="qualified"attributeFormDefault="unqualified">

<xs:complexTypename="AUAddress">
<xs:complexContent>
<xs:extensionbase="Address">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:elementname="state"maxOccurs="1">
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restrictionbase="xs:string">
<xs:enumerationvalue="ACT"/>
<xs:enumerationvalue="VIC"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attributename="country"type="xs:NMTOKEN"fixed="AU"use="required"/>
</xs:extension>
</xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>

<xs:complexTypename="USAddress">
<xs:complexContent>
<xs:extensionbase="Address">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:elementname="state"maxOccurs="1">
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restrictionbase="xs:string">
<xs:enumerationvalue="AK"/>
<xs:enumerationvalue="AL"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attributename="country"type="xs:NMTOKEN"fixed="US"use="required"/>
</xs:extension>
</xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>

<xs:complexTypename="Address">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:elementname="street"type="xs:string"maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:elementname="city"type="xs:string"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

Following figure shows these three types how they are related.

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Let us create a another schema which represent the person, who is having address which can be either
AUAddress or USAddress.
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<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf8"?>
<xs:schemaxmlns="http://www.ojitha.org"targetNamespace="http://www.ojitha.org"xmlns:xs="

<xs:importnamespace="http://www.ojitha.org/address"
schemaLocation="file:///C:/XmlPad%20Projects/first/address.xsd"/>

<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation>
Thisistestingschemaforapurchaseorder.
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:elementname="process">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:elementname="person"type="personType"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

<xs:complexTypename="personType">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:elementname="name">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:extensionbase="xs:string">
<xs:attributename="sex"use="required">
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restrictionbase="xs:string">
<xs:enumerationvalue="M"/>
<xs:enumerationvalue="F"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:attribute>
</xs:extension>
</xs:simpleContent>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:elementname="age">
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restrictionbase="xs:positiveInteger">
<xs:minInclusivevalue="12"/>
<xs:maxExclusivevalue="100"/>
</xs:restriction>

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</xs:simpleType>
</xs:element>
<xs:elementname="address"type="addr:Address"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

The <address> element can be either AUAddress or USAddress in the instance XML files as shown in the
following,
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<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf8"?>
<processxmlns="http://www.ojitha.org"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchemainstance

<person>
<namesex="M">Ojitha</name>
<age>40</age>
<addressxsi:type="addr:AUAddress"country="AU">
<addr:street>Ten</addr:street>
<addr:city>bonython</addr:city>
<addr:state>ACT</addr:state>
</address>
</person>
</process>

As well you can have USAddress also.

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<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf8"?>
<processxmlns="http://www.ojitha.org"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchemainstance

<person>
<namesex="M">Ojitha</name>
<age>40</age>
<addressxsi:type="addr:USAddress"country="US">
<addr:street>Ten</addr:street>
<addr:city>bonython</addr:city>
<addr:state>AL</addr:state>
</address>
</person>
</process>

Hope this will help. If there is other way please comment.

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