Class Summary
Class	Description
AllHandler	AllHandler purpose.
AnyAttributeHandler	AnyAttributeHandler purpose.
AnyHandler	AnyHandler purpose.
AttributeGroupHandler	AttributeGroupHandler purpose.
AttributeHandler	AttributeHandler purpose.
ChoiceHandler	ChoiceHandler purpose.
ComplexContentHandler	represents a complex content element
ComplexTypeHandler	ComplexTypeHandler purpose.
ElementGroupingHandler	Allows the developer to avoid instanceof operators when wishing to compress.
ElementTypeHandler	ElementTypeHandler purpose.
ExtensionHandler	Represents an Extension element
FacetHandler	FacetHandler purpose.
FieldHandler	FieldHandler purpose.
GroupHandler	GroupHandler purpose.
GroupHandler.DefaultGroup
IgnoreHandler	Used to represent elements which are not important to our parse, basically place holders.
ImportHandler	ImportHandler purpose.
IncludeHandler	ImportHandler purpose.
KeyHandler	KeyHandler purpose.
KeyrefHandler	KeyrefHandler purpose.
ListHandler	ListHandler purpose.
RedefineHandler	RedefineHandler purpose.
RestrictionHandler	RestrictionHandler purpose.
RootHandler	RootHandler purpose.
SchemaHandler	SchemaHandler purpose.
SelectorHandler	SelectorHandler purpose.
SequenceHandler	SequenceHandler purpose.
SimpleContentHandler	represtents a simpleContent element
SimpleTypeHandler	SimpleTypeHandler purpose.
UnionHandler	UnionHandler purpose.
UniqueHandler	UniqueHandler purpose.

Package org.geotools.xml.handlers.xsi Description

Overview

This package contains information about xml schemas, and processes to create parse and interpret Schema. One of the more important function is the simplification of a Schema into the interface in the xsi package, as well as compressing some of the heirarchy.

These classes should be used by assessing the SchemaFactory.

Future Work / Caveat

Work can be completed on two fronts, improving the compression algorithms for the Schema compression. The second major work for this schema should be to encode the Schema parsing (this package) as a Schema Object, using the document parser to complete the same task through an xsi extension.

Although it was evident early on that these tasks were similar, the exact nature and method of bootstrapping the process was not evident. Converting these classes to a Schema definition similar to GML would simplify the code, making it easier to maintain.