Elements

XML elements are mapped as dynamic class fields.

There are three cases for XML elements:

• Simple types can be of two kinds:

  • A built-in type

  • A type that has been redefined by the user by inheritance

• Complex types are represented as dynamic classes.

• Collections can be for both simple or complex types.

  • For complex types, the result is a vector of IlrXmlObject instances.

  • For simple types, there are two options:

    • A vector of the mapped class is used, for example, String.

    • For primitive types, a wrapper is used. For example, int could be mapped onto Integer.

  Collections are defined by elements with the attributes minOccurs or maxOccurs having a value higher than 1. In this case, such elements are mapped to Vector attributes. A List suffix is appended to the name of the element. For example:

  <element name = "item" type = "item" maxOccurs="10"/>
  

  is mapped to the attribute Vector itemList, which contains instances of the dynamic class Item.