Chapter 9. XML Schema
If you wish to create an object model for manipulating an XML data structure of some type, EMF provides a particularly desirable approach based on XML Schema. EMF can create an Ecore model that corresponds to a schema, allowing you to leverage the code generator, or dynamic EMF, to provide a Java API for manipulating instances of that schema.
At a high level, the mapping to Ecore is quite simple:
- A schema maps to an EPackage.
- A complex type definition maps to an EClass.
- A simple type definition maps to an EDataType.
- An attribute declaration or element declaration maps to an EAttribute if its type maps to an EDataType, or to an EReference if its type maps to an EClass.
From a modeling perspective, however, XML Schema is ...
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