[xsd-users] extending xsd

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Sumant,

Sumant Tambe <sutambe at dre.vanderbilt.edu> writes:

> In my xsd generator extension, I'm missing child elements of complex 
> types if the complex type is derived from some other complex type, which 
> defines the children in question. In that case, what can I do to detect 
> that a complex type in schema is a derived type of some other type? 
> Also, how do I get hold of the instance of that base type?

You can test it with the inherits_p() function:

SemanticGraph::Complex& c = ...

if (c.inherits_p ())
{
  SemanticGraph::Type& base = c.inherits ().base ();
}

You can see in tree-header.cxx:2287 (3.2.0 source code) how the
inheritance of C++ classes is generated.

Boris