[xsd-users] Parsing the Collada 1.3.1 XSD

[mark_barnes at playstation.sony.com]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:04 +0200, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> Marcus writes:
> >
> I tried to find COLLADA schema 1.4 but all I can get is 1.3.1. I could
> run xsd on it see if there are any warnings wrt anonymous types and code
> bloat.

The 1.4 schema will be released today I expect. It'll be at khronos.org.

> Right, if technique_common inside camera is of a completely different
> type compared to technique_common inside light, there is no code bloat.
> Nothing significant will be achieved if those types are explicitly named.
> However, if you have a schema like this:
> 
> 
> <element name="technique_common">
>   <complexType>
>     ...
>   </complexType>
> </element>
> 
> 
> <complexType name="Camera">
>    <sequence>
>      <element ref="technique_common"/>
>    </sequence>
> </complexType>
> 
> 
> <complexType name="Light">
>    <sequence>
>      <element ref="technique_common"/>
>    </sequence>
> </complexType>
> 
> 
> Then Camera and Light types will each have its own copy of the
> technique_common type. Those copies will be identical and can
> be replaced with one global type:

Sure and we do that more in the 1.4 schema. The schema is quite a bit
bigger then 1.3.1 was since we added FX and PhX features.

Regards,
Marcus


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Mark Barnes
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