Supplementing information for the XML schema

When importing an XML schema, you can modify the properties or supplement some necessary information of the XML schema according to your own requirements in order to make it more useful to you.

The following are some special properties and its description for your reference:

Name

Displays the name of an element (), attribute () or a reference of element () in the XML instance.

Data Type

Specifies the data type of an element or attribute. The data type is imported when importing the XML schema from XSD file or given by JReport when parsing from XML source. This property on a reference of element cannot be modified.

Format Pattern Type

This property is activated when you modify properties for data of Date, Time or DateTime type in the XML schema. It can be Default or Customized:

• If Default is selected, the lexical formats inspired by ISO 8601 will be used for Date, Time or DateTime data following the specification XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition.
• If Customized is selected, the Format Pattern dialog will appear for you to specify patterns to format the Date, Time or DateTime data in the XML schema (for details, see Appendix 1: Details of format patterns).

Format Pattern

This property is available when you specify to parse data from the XML instance at runtime.

Is Multiple

Indicates whether or not an element occurs more than once in the XML instance. By default, the value of the Is Multiple property is affected by the value of its maxOccurs property in the XSD: if the value of maxOccurs property is greater than 1 or unbounded, it is true; otherwise, it is false. You can modify this property according to your own requirements.

List

Specifies whether or not to set the data type of an element or attribute as List. This property on a reference of element cannot be modified.

• List Delimiter
  Specifies the delimiter to separate items in the list. Now only the following delimiters are supported: , . ; ! / \ | and space. Space will be specified by default.

The following two properties are alternative:

Default Value

Specifies the default value for an element or attribute. If there is no specific value of an element or attribute in the XML schema, the default value you specify here will be applied; otherwise, the value in the XML schema for this element or attribute will be applied.

Fixed Value

Specifies the fixed value for an element or attribute, which will be applied no matter there is a value for the element or attribute.