Hello All,
I'm using Castor's XML to classes facitily and have been happy with it. The
only problem is, that you sometimes have to work around unemplemented parts
of the XML Schema specification. But that's doable.
Now I've however found a bug that hinders my use of Castor a bit.
I'd like to use a pattern to validate a XML argument with xs:string as the
base:
<xs:simpleType name="elementRef">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation>...</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:pattern value="(/[\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)+"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
The pattern is actually "(/{NCName})*" and the field can contain a reference
to a unique element definition in an XML Schema, for example
"/schema/annotation/documentation". It's a subset of XPath.
Generating the code goes well. This is the pattern specific code being
generated:
//-- validation code for: _element
fieldValidator = new org.exolab.castor.xml.FieldValidator();
fieldValidator.setMinOccurs(1);
{ //-- local scope
StringValidator typeValidator = new StringValidator();
typeValidator.setWhiteSpace("preserve");
typeValidator.setPattern("(/[\\i-[:]][\\c-[:]]*)+");
fieldValidator.setValidator(typeValidator);
}
When running the code, this exception is thrown:
vlows.utils.CastorIOException: XML file could not be read into object.
at vlows.utils.CastorIO.load(CastorIO.java:51)
at mips.gendbtoxml.Test.main(Test.java:23)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: RegExp Syntax error: Invalid []
range in expression. ; error occured with the following regular expression:
(/[\i-[:]][\c-[:]]*)+
The expression seems to be indented properly. XMLSpy handles the pattern well
and detects invalid strings. Xerces seems to ignore the pattern and just
accepts all strings.
The pattern is valid, so Castor should either ignore it or use it, but it
should not give an erroneous error.
Cheers, Jos
--
Jos van den Oever
Institute for Bioinformatics
Building 56, Room 161 C
Telephone: +49 89/3187-3677
http://mips.gsf.de
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