Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com> wrote on 08/07/2010 10:00:56 PM:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
> > (Saxon actually creates the FSA for each complex type in the schema eagerly,
> > rather than waiting until an instance of that type needs to be validated.
>
> I'm not sure how you model the FSA for a complex type. But I think,
> Xerces-J implements an object model corresponding to [1] for a schema
> complex type.
That's part of Xerces' schema component API. This is for end users. Xerces talks directly to the implementation of XSComplexTypeDefinition which contains a deterministic FSA used for validating instances, checking UPA and possibly also XML Schema 1.1's type restriction rules in the future.
If you turn off UPA checking [2] creation of these FSAs is deferred until the complex types are actually used to validate an instance. Even with UPA checking on sometimes Xerces can build a much smaller FSA which is sufficient for checking UPA and then builds the full one later if it is required for instance validation.
> [1] : http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/xs/org/apache/
> xerces/xs/XSComplexTypeDefinition.html
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi
>
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Thanks.
[2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/features.html#validation.schema-full-checking
Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
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