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Supported XSD Elements and Attributes


Not all XSD schema elements and attributes are supported by Siebel Business Applications. Table 6 and Table 7 list all the XSD elements and attributes with Siebel CRM support levels for them. The following terminology is used in these tables:

  • Ignored. This level of support means that processing will continue, and an error is not generated. However, the information given for the specified element or attribute is ignored.
  • Mapped. This level of support means that the information specified in a given element or attribute is used in the integration object representation.
  • Not mapped. This level of support means that the given element or attribute information is not used. However, children of the element will be processed.

NOTE:  The Siebel application does not perform any formatting or processing for any of the schema types. All the scalar types such as string, ID, or integer are treated as strings. When converted to an integration object and integration component field, DataType is set to DTYPE_TEXT.

Table 6 lists XSD schema elements and the level of support for them in Siebel Business Applications.

Table 6. XSD Schema Elements and Siebel CRM Support Level
Element
Siebel CRM Support Level
Details

all

Not mapped. Treated as sequence.

Not applicable

annotation

Mapped

Mapped as a parent's comment property.

Children can be mapped only if parent of annotation is mapped to a component or field.

any

Mapped

Mapped as a XML Hierarchy if namespace attribute cannot be resolved to a schema import definition.

Otherwise, all global elements logically replace the any element that are then mapped to an integration object using rules for elements.

Acts as a placeholder for any element.

For more information about this element, see Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.

anyAttribute

Mapped

Same as the any element.

Act as a placeholder for any attribute.

For more information about this element, see Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.

appinfo

Ignored

Not applicable

attribute

Mapped

Mapped as a field.

Storing type information is useful when generating schema either after importing one or manually creating one. Also, useful for type specific formatting, such as xsd:datetime.

attributeGroup

Mapped

Mapped as children attributes that are added as fields to the parent element's component.

choice

Not mapped. Treated as sequence.

Not applicable

complexContent

Mapped

Mapped to add properties and children to the parent element's component.

Attributes can affect parent (complexType) and children when restriction and extension are processed.

complexType

Mapped

Mapped if global complexType is starting point for integration object that maps to root component.

Also mapped when XSDTypeName and XSDTypeNamespace user properties are set on the root or elements component.

documentation

Mapped

Mapped if Comment property is on a field, component, or object.

element

Mapped

Mapped as a component or field.

If element is of simpleType and maxOccurs is at most 1, then map to field, otherwise map to component (complexType).

enumeration

Ignored

Not applicable

extension

Mapped

Mapped if merging base type and children into the parent.

Extension element affects the parent for complexContent and simpleContent.

field

Ignored

Not applicable

group

Mapped

Mapped if adding children to the parent element's component.

import

Mapped

Preprocessed to receive the additional schema.

Resolve a schemaLocation reference by URI or Local (File).

Whatever is defined in imported schema will belong to a different namespace.

include

Mapped

Preprocessed to receive the additional schema.

Resolve a schemaLocation reference by URL or Local (File).

Whatever is defined in imported schema can belong to the same namespace.

key

Ignored

Defines a unique key.

keyref

Ignored

Defines fields for key.

Keyref refers to a key that must exist in the document.

length

Mapped. Does not support lists.

Mapped for field external length and length.

Fixed length of string-based content. Also might mean length of a list (number of items).

list

Ignored

Not applicable

maxLength

Mapped

Mapped for field length.

minExclusive, maxExclusive

Ignored

Not applicable

minInclusive, maxInclusive

Ignored

Not applicable

minLength

Not mapped

You can use minlength = 0 to indicate that a field can have zero characters, that is, it is optional. You must manually edit the XSD to specify the minLength value.

notation

Ignored

Not applicable

pattern

Ignored

Not applicable

redefine

Ignored

Not applicable

restriction

Mapped

Mapped when adding children to the parent component or field.

Affects its parent: complexContent, simpleContent, simpleType.

Remove the elements and attributes that are not specified as the restriction ones.

Validate that the elements and attributes used in the restriction are present in the base type.

schema

Mapped

Namespace information used for object, component, and field.

selector

Ignored

Not applicable

sequence

Not mapped

Not applicable

simpleContent

Mapped

Mapped when adding properties and children to the parent element's component.

simpleType

Mapped

XSDTypeName and XSDTypeNamespace user properties on parent element's field or component, or attribute's field.

union

Ignored

Not applicable

unique

Ignored

Not applicable

Table 7 lists XSD schema attributes and the level of support for them in Siebel Business Applications.

Table 7. XSD Schema Attributes and Siebel CRM Support Level
Attribute
Siebel CRM Support Level
Details

abstract

Ignored

Not applicable

attributeFormDefault

Ignored

Not applicable

base

Mapped

Mapped if base type is used to create component or field.

block

Ignored

Not applicable

blockDefault

Ignored

Not applicable

default: attribute

Mapped

Mapped to XML Literal value property only.

Provides default value for an attribute when an attribute is missing.

default: element

Mapped

Mapped to XML Literal value property only.

Provides default value for an element when an element is empty.

elementFormDefault

Ignored

Not applicable

final

Ignored

Not applicable

finalDefault

Ignored

Not applicable

fixed: attribute or element

Ignored

Not applicable

fixed: simpleType

Ignored

Not applicable

form

Ignored

Not applicable

itemType

Ignored

Not applicable

maxOccurs

Mapped

Maps to the cardinality upper bound on parent element's component. Maps to One or More (unbounded).

If you want to preserve the maximum number of occurrences, then new column is needed.

memberTypes

Ignored

Not applicable

minOccurs

Mapped

Maps to the cardinality lower bound on parent element's component. Maps to Zero or One.

If you want to preserve the minimum number of occurrences, then new column is needed.

mixed

Ignored

Not applicable

name

Mapped

Maps to the XML Tag of parent element (component, field) or attribute field or to the XSD Type Name on object, component, or field.

Name of the schema component.

namespace: any, anyAttribute

Mapped

Namespace for the replacement elements and attributes.

namespace: import

Mapped

Maps to Namespace and XSDNamespace user property on components and fields that are being imported.

Namespace for the imported elements and attributes.

nillable

Ignored

Not applicable

processContents

Ignored

Not applicable

public

Ignored

Not applicable

ref

Mapped

Mapped if metadata starting from global element or attribute that is being referred to is copied to the referring element (component, field) or attribute field.

schemaLocation

Mapped

Mapped if used for preprocessing of import or include

substitutionGroup

Ignored

Not applicable

targetNamespace

Mapped

Maps to XSD Type Namespace and XML Tag Namespace user properties on the integration object, imported component, or field.

Schema targetNamespace to which all schema components definitions in a particular schema belong (children of schema element).

type

Mapped

Maps to XSDTypeName user property on element's component or field, or attribute's field.

use

Ignored

Not applicable

version

Ignored

Not applicable

whitespace

Ignored

Not applicable

xpath

Ignored

Not applicable

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