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| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#0080c0" align="left" colspan="2"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#ffffff">Status of this Document</font></b></td> |
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| <p>Last updated on 02/24/2005.</p> |
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| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#0080c0" align="left" colspan="2"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#ffffff">XML Schema Component Refactoring</font></b></td> |
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| <p>The initial refactoring support is available from source, outline and graph views and provided for:</p> |
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| <li>make anonymous type global |
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| <li>make local element global</li> |
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| <li>component rename</li> |
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| <p>Refactoring updates are performed automatically, preview of the changes are planned in the future milestone.</p> |
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| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#0080c0" align="left" colspan="2"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#ffffff">Enhanced Error Reporting As You Type</font></b></td> |
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| <p>XML and XML Schema validation errors can now be highlighted while you are editing. While editing in the |
| XML schema editor or XML editor in the source view, common validation errors are marked with underlining red |
| "squiggles" so errors can be quickly spotted and corrected. Previously, highligting errors as you type only |
| occured in the event of a malformed XML, not due to validation errors. This feature can be toggled through |
| the preferences. Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Structured Text Editors -> |
| Analyze annotations while typing.</p> |
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| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#0080c0" align="left" colspan="2"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#ffffff">General Enhancements</font></b></td> |
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| An element's simple type or anonymous (local) simple type can be selected from the graph view. You can |
| then modify the properties of the type in the properties view. |
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| A new cascade menu has been added to allow you to set the type of an element more easily. |
| From this menu, you can choose to create a new complex or simple type for the element, or |
| choose one from among the existing types that are available. |
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| A new cascade menu has been added to allow you to set the multiplicity of an element or content model. |
| The alternative is to specify the values of minOccurs and/or maxOccurs from the properties view. |
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| The schemaLocation property of an include, import, or redefine is editable. |
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