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| <title>Adding simple types</title> | |
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| <searchtitle>Adding simple types</searchtitle> | |
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| <shortdesc>Simple types are used to create derived datatypes. | |
| They provide a set of constraints on the value space (a set of values) and | |
| the lexical space (a set of valid literals) of a datatype.</shortdesc> | |
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| <keywords><indexterm>XML schema editor<indexterm>simple types</indexterm></indexterm> | |
| <indexterm>XML schema files<indexterm>simple types</indexterm></indexterm> | |
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| <context><p>A simple type cannot have element content and cannot carry attributes. | |
| Elements that contain numbers (and strings, and dates, and so on) but do not | |
| contain any sub-elements have a simple type.</p><p>The following instructions | |
| were written for the Resource perspective, but they will also work in many | |
| other perspectives.</p><p>To add a simple type:</p></context> | |
| <steps> | |
| <step><cmd>Open your XML schema in the XML schema editor.</cmd></step> | |
| <step><cmd>In the Outline view, right-click <b>Types</b>, and click <uicontrol>Add | |
| Simple Type</uicontrol>.</cmd></step> | |
| <step><cmd>In the Outline view, select the new simple type.</cmd></step> | |
| <step><cmd>In the Properties view, click the <uicontrol>General</uicontrol> tab.</cmd> | |
| </step> | |
| <step><cmd>Type a new name for the simple type in the <uicontrol>Name</uicontrol> field.</cmd> | |
| </step> | |
| <step><cmd>You can select the following options from the <uicontrol>Variety</uicontrol> list:</cmd> | |
| <choices> | |
| <choice><uicontrol>atomic</uicontrol>. Atomic types are all the simple types | |
| built into the XML schema language.</choice> | |
| <choice><uicontrol>list</uicontrol>. List types are comprised of sequences | |
| of atomic types. They have values that are comprised of finite-length sequences | |
| of atomic values. </choice> | |
| <choice><uicontrol>union</uicontrol>. A union type enables an element or attribute | |
| value to be one or more instances of one type drawn from the union of multiple | |
| atomic and list types.</choice> | |
| </choices> | |
| </step> | |
| <step><cmd>If you selected <uicontrol>atomic</uicontrol> from the <uicontrol>Variety</uicontrol> list, | |
| click <uicontrol>Browse</uicontrol> <image href="../images/Browse.gif"><alt>This | |
| graphic is the Browse button</alt></image> next to the <uicontrol>Base type</uicontrol> field | |
| to specify a base type for the simple type.</cmd><info>The Set Type dialog | |
| box lists all built-in and user-defined types currently available. You can | |
| change the <uicontrol>Scope</uicontrol> of the list by selecting one of the | |
| following options:<ul> | |
| <li><uicontrol>Workspace</uicontrol>. Lists all of the types available in | |
| your workspace. </li> | |
| <li><uicontrol>Enclosing Project</uicontrol>. Lists all of the types available | |
| in the project that contains your file. </li> | |
| <li>(Default) <uicontrol>Current Resource</uicontrol>. List all of the types | |
| available in your current file.</li> | |
| <li><uicontrol>Working Sets</uicontrol>. List all the types available within | |
| the selected working set.</li> | |
| </ul></info></step> | |
| <step><cmd>If you selected <uicontrol>list</uicontrol> from the <uicontrol>Variety</uicontrol> list, | |
| click <uicontrol>Browse</uicontrol> <image href="../images/Browse.gif"><alt>This | |
| graphic is the Browse button</alt></image> next to the <uicontrol>Item type</uicontrol> field | |
| to specify a item type for the simple type.</cmd><info>The Set Type dialog | |
| box lists all built-in and user-defined types currently available. You can | |
| change the <uicontrol>Scope</uicontrol> of the list by selecting one of the | |
| following options:<ul> | |
| <li><uicontrol>Workspace</uicontrol>. Lists all of the types available in | |
| your workspace. </li> | |
| <li><uicontrol>Enclosing Project</uicontrol>. Lists all of the types available | |
| in the project that contains your file. </li> | |
| <li>(Default) <uicontrol>Current Resource</uicontrol>. List all of the types | |
| available in your current file.</li> | |
| <li><uicontrol>Working Sets</uicontrol>. List all the types available within | |
| the selected working set.</li> | |
| </ul></info></step> | |
| <step><cmd>If you selected <uicontrol>union</uicontrol> from the <uicontrol>Variety</uicontrol> list, | |
| click <uicontrol>Browse</uicontrol> <image href="../images/Browse.gif"><alt>This | |
| graphic is the Browse button</alt></image> next to the <uicontrol>Member types</uicontrol> field | |
| to specify the member types for the simple type.</cmd><info>You can select | |
| to add both <uicontrol>Built-in simple types</uicontrol> and <uicontrol>User-defined | |
| simple types</uicontrol> to the member types value list. </info></step> | |
| <step><cmd>Click the <uicontrol>Constraints</uicontrol> tab.</cmd><info>From | |
| here you will be able to set specific constraint values including length constraints, | |
| enumerations, and patterns. </info> | |
| <substeps> | |
| <substep><cmd>Enumerations help you to define a set of valid values for simple | |
| types. They are the actual values the simple type can take as valid values | |
| in the instance document. You can either add one enumeration or several enumerations | |
| at a time:</cmd><info><ul> | |
| <li>To add one enumeration at a time, under <uicontrol>Specific constraint | |
| values</uicontrol>, select <uicontrol>Enumerations</uicontrol> and click <uicontrol>Add</uicontrol> and | |
| specify a value for the enumeration.</li> | |
| <li>To add several enumerations at one time, follow these steps:<ol> | |
| <li>Select <uicontrol>Enumerations</uicontrol>.</li> | |
| <li>Click <uicontrol>Add</uicontrol>.</li> | |
| <li>Enter the value of each enumeration. Each value must be separated by the <uicontrol>Delimiter | |
| character</uicontrol>. For example: <codeph>First, Second</codeph> will create | |
| two enumerations, one with the value "First" and one with the value "Second".</li> | |
| <li>Select the <uicontrol>Preserve leading and trailing whitespace</uicontrol> check | |
| box if you want any white space around your enumeration values to be preserved. | |
| If you select this check box, the values of <codeph>First, Second</codeph> will | |
| show up as "First" and " Second" (there is a space before Second) because | |
| you put a space before "Second" when entering the value.</li> | |
| <li>Click <uicontrol>OK</uicontrol>. Your enumerations will be created and | |
| appear in the Properties view.</li> | |
| </ol></li> | |
| </ul></info></substep> | |
| <substep><cmd>Patterns help you to place certain constraints regarding allowable | |
| values.</cmd><info>For example, you could restrict the field to only accept | |
| input which follows the pattern "five digits followed by two upper-case ASCII | |
| letters". To set a pattern constraint:<ol> | |
| <li>Select <uicontrol>Patterns</uicontrol>.</li> | |
| <li>Click <uicontrol>Add</uicontrol>.</li> | |
| <li>Create the regular expression pattern you wish to use as your constraint | |
| using the <uicontrol>Regular Expression</uicontrol> wizard.</li> | |
| <li>Click <uicontrol>Finish</uicontrol>.</li> | |
| </ol></info></substep> | |
| </substeps> | |
| </step> | |
| <step><cmd>Click the <uicontrol>Documentation</uicontrol> tab if you want | |
| to provide any information about this simple type.</cmd><info>The <uicontrol>Documentation</uicontrol> page | |
| is used for human readable material, such as a description.</info></step> | |
| <step><cmd>Click the <uicontrol>Extensions</uicontrol> tab if you want to | |
| add application information elements to your annotations of schema components.</cmd> | |
| <info>The <uicontrol>Extensions</uicontrol> page allows you to specify the | |
| schema and add XML content to your annotations.</info></step> | |
| </steps> | |
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