Binding Declaration

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The configuration file format enables customized binding without requiring modification of the source schema. The schema component to which the binding declaration applies must be identified explicitly. Minimally, a configuration file is of the following format.

<bindings version="1.0">
 
   <schemaBindings namespace | schemaLocation = "xsd:anyURI">
 
      <nodeBindings name | node = "xsd:string">*
 
          <node bindings declaration>
 
      <nodeBindings>
 
   </schemaBindings>
 
</bindings>
 

The schemaBindings node has the attribute namespace or schemaLocation to refer to a schema. The namespace attribute is used to specify a schema using its target namespace. The schemaLocation attribute specifices a schema using its physical file location.

The nodeBindings node has the attribute name and node to construct a reference to a node within the schema. The name attribute specifies a node using its QName. The node attribute uses an XPath expression to specify a set of nodes.

A summary of these attribute values is as follows:

namespace:	A reference to a schema's target namespace.
schemaLocation:	A URI reference to an XML schema document.
name:	The qualified name (QName) of a node within the schema.
node:	An XPath 1.01 expression that identifies the schema node within a schema with which to associate binding declarations.

1XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath)

An example of a configuration file can be found in the section "Configuration File Example".