Any Element

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An element in a sequence can be declared using the xsd:any keyword to indicate that an element of any type can be present in that position. An example of this type of construct is as follows:

<xsd:complexType name="SeqWithAny">

<xsd:sequence>

<xsd:element name="a" type="xsd:string"/>

<xsd:any processContents="lax"/>

</xsd:sequence>

</xsd:complexType>

In this case, the element a is followed by another element with any name and of any type. The processContents="lax" attribute tells a schema processor to do lax validation processing on the element in this position - something that is of no concern to the XBinder compiler.

The generated C type definition for this type is as follows:

typedef struct SeqWithAny {

OSXMLSTRING a;

OSAnyElement _any;

} SeqWithAny;

C++ is similar except that the standard class pattern is used:

class SeqWithAny : public OSBaseType {

public:

OSXMLStringClass a;

OSAnyElementClass _any;

...

} ;

In this case, the compiler has inserted an OSAnyElement typed element to represent the any field. This contains UTF-8 character string fields for the element name and value.

An example code snippet that could be used to populate a C variable of this type for encoding is as follows:

const OSUTF8CHAR* anyData = (OSUTF8CHAR*)

"<anyData>this is test data</anyData>";

SeqWithAny testSeq;

testSeq.a.value = (const OSUTF8CHAR*)"test string";

testSeq._any.name = (const OSUTF8CHAR*)"anyData";

testSeq._any.value =

(const OSUTF8CHAR*)"this is test data";

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