C Example

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The following is a common example of a choice construct with a nested sequence. This allows element a or element b or both elements to be present in an XML instance of the type:

	<xsd:complexType name="AOrBOrBothType">
		<xsd:choice>
			<xsd:sequence>
				<xsd:element name="a" type="xsd:string"/>
				<xsd:element name="b" type="xsd:string" 
					minOccurs="0"/>
			</xsd:sequence>
			<xsd:element name="b" type="xsd:string"/>
		</xsd:choice>
	</xsd:complexType>

The generated C code for this type is as follows:

typedef struct AOrBOrBothType_1 {
   struct {
      unsigned bPresent : 1;
   } m;
   OSXMLSTRING a;
   OSXMLSTRING b;
} AOrBOrBothType_1;

/* choice tag constants */
#define T_AOrBOrBothType__seq1			  	1
#define T_AOrBOrBothType_b	      2

typedef struct AOrBOrBothType {
   OSUINT16 t;
   union {
      /* t = 1 */
      AOrBOrBothType_1 *_seq1;
      /* t = 2 */
      OSXMLSTRING* b;
   } u;
} AOrBOrBothType;

In this case, XBinder created the type AOrBOrBothType_1 to represent the inner sequence. It then added the _seq1 element to the main C type using this type. A user populating the structure would use the _seq1 element to specify element a or both and would use the b element to specify choice b.