Pseudo-Component

The Pseudo-component feature is similar to Type Cast. The XML Schema introduces xsd:any. It declares that an element can be located in the XML document and have any name and type. The BPEL mapper allows you to add to the tree elements, which correspond to xsd:any. Such elements don't appear in the schema, but they look similar to other elements. That is why they are called pseudo-elements. The user can map from and to a pseudo-element the same way as for an ordinary element. This also applies to the xsd:anyAttribute. The user can create pseudo-attributes to use for mapping and design purposes.

In the Mapper's Input and Output trees, xsd:any appears as an element node with the name "Any Element" and xsd:anyAttribute as an attribute with the name "Any Attribute". Both have the pop-up menu item "Cast To...", which calls the special dialog box used to specify a name, namespace and type for the new pseudo-component. For xsd:any any global type can be chosen. For xsd:anyAttribute only the global simple types are suggested. In both cases the settings allow you to choose global types from several different sources. The completed pseudo-components appear in the tree with the name pattern (castToElementName)Any Element or (castToAttributeName)Any Attribute.