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When saving a resource how to create text nodes for resource attributes? [message #871027]

Thu, 10 May 2012 14:51

Thiago Santos

Messages: 2
Registered: May 2012

Junior Member

Hello there,

I'm fairly recent to EMF development so this question might be trivial to answer but i haven't found any information that could allow me to resolve tbis.

I declared a .ecore file named Test.ecore

In it i defined a EClass named 'Person' with one EAttribute named 'personName' of type EString. Now when saving the Person resource i imagine i will get something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Test:Person xmi:version="2.0" personName="Thiago"/>

How can i make it so that when saving the resource, the attribute personName is a Text Node instead of a attribute of Person? Something like this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Test:Person xmi:version="2.0">
       <personName>Thiago</personName>
</Test:Person>

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Re: When saving a resource how to create text nodes for resource attributes? [message #871034 is a reply to message #871027]

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:09

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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Thiago, 
 
Comments below. 
 
On 10/05/2012 4:51 PM, Thiago Santos wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:jogkkl$60u$1@xxxxxxxxe.org" type="cite">Hello
there,
 
 
I'm fairly recent to EMF development so this question might be
trivial to answer but i haven't found any information that could
allow me to resolve tbis.
 
 
I declared a .ecore file named Test.ecore
 
 
In it i defined a EClass named 'Person' with one EAttribute named
'personName' of type EString. Now when saving the Person resource
i imagine i will get something like:
 
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
 
<Test:Person xmi:version="2.0" personName="Thiago"/>
 
 
 
How can i make it so that when saving the resource, the attribute
personName is a Text Node instead of a attribute of Person?
Something like this:
 
 
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
<Test:Person xmi:version="2.0">
 
<personName>Thiago</personName>
 
</Test:Person>
 
 
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You'll need to add extended meta data annotation to specify you want
it serialized as an element <a
href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/docs/overviews/XMLSchemaToEcoreMapping.pdf">http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/docs/overviews/XMLSchemaToEcoreMapping.pdf
</a>and use OPTION_EXTENDED_META_DATA as a save option so the
annotations are respected. 
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Ed Merks
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