User interface
For substitutions, if anyType
is the defined
type for an element, every other built-in and user-defined type in the schema are valid
for this type's substitution.
As there are over forty built-in types, only the user-defined types are included in the GUI’s list of substitutions.
To use a built-in schema type to substitute (for example, xsd:string
),
you must specify that type by hand.
User-defined types that have no base type or whose base type is a built-in type
have xsd:xsd:anyType
or xsd:anySimpleType
as their base type. This is because the only built-in
type that may be substituted is xsd:anyType
and xsd:anySimpleType
.
All other built-in types are blocked from substitution by default.
Examples of user interface representations of wildcard contents
Forany
, an element is defined by a complex type containing
any
, such as:
<xs:element name="childAny">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:any/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
If a namespace constraint is specified, then its value is annotated with any of these possibilities:
-
##any (##local)
-
##any (uri1 uri2 uri3 list_of_uris)
-
##any (##other)
-
##any (##targetNamespace list_of_uris)
-
##any (##other <targetNS>)
(if
targetNamespace
is specified in the schema.) -
##any (##targetNamespace <targetNS> list_of_uris)
(if
targetNamespace
is specified in the schema.)
For anyAttribute
, an element is
defined using a type containing xsd:anyAttribute
,
such as:
<xs:element name="childAnyAttribute">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
.
.
.
</xs:sequence>
<xs:anyAttribute/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
If a namespace constraint is specified, then its value is annotated with any of these possibilities:
-
##anyAttribute (##local)
-
## anyAttribute (uri1 uri2 uri3)
-
## anyAttribute (##other)
-
## anyAttribute (##targetNamespace list_of_uris)
-
## anyAttribute (##other <targetNS>)
(if
targetNamespace
is specified in the schema.) -
## anyAttribute (##targetNamespace <targetNS> list_of_uris)
(if
targetNamespace
is specified in the schema.)
anyType
, an element (for example, childxsd:anyType
) is defined using anyType
, such as:
<xsd:element name="childAnyType" type="xsd:anyType"/>
Its content is represented as including an optional unbounded
sequence of any and xsd:anyAttribute
.
For anySimpletype
, an element is
defined using anySimpletype
, such as:
<xsd:element name="childAnySimpleType" type="xsd:anySimpleType"/>