Customizing XML serialization

The following attributes are used to change the default serialization of BDL into XML, and vice-versa. Some of these attributes cannot have values; for the others a value is mandatory.

The following attributes cannot have values:

Table 1. XML Serialization customizing - Attributes that cannot have values
Attribute	Definition
XMLOptional	Define whether the variable can be missing.
XMLElement	Map a BDL simple data type to an XML Element.
XMLAttribute	Map a BDL simple data type to an XML Attribute.
XMLBase	Set the base type of an XML Schema simpleContent.
XMLAll	Map a BDL Record to an XML Schema all structure.
XMLChoice	Map a BDL Record to an XML Schema choice structure.
XMLSequence	Map a BDL Record to an XML Schema sequence structure.
XMLSimpleContent	Map a BDL Record to an XML Schema simpleContent structure.
XSComplexType	Map a BDL Record type definition to an XML Schema complexType.
XMLList	Map a one-dimensional array to an XML Schema list.
XMLSelector	Define which member of an XMLChoice record is selected.
XMLAny	Map a Xml.DomDocument object to a wildcard XML element node.
XMLAnyAttribute	Map a BDL one-dimensional dynamic array of a record with 3 strings to XML wildcard attributes.

Values are mandatory for the following attributes: (for example, XMLName="myname")

Table 2. XML Serialization customizing - Attributes that must have values
Attribute	Definition
XMLName	Define the XML Name of a variable in an XML document.
XMLNamespace	Define the XML Namespace of a variable in an XML document.
XMLType	Force the XML type name of a variable.
XMLTypenamespace	Force the XML type namespace of a variable.
XSTypename	Define the XML Type Name of a BDL type definition.
XSTypenamespace	Define the XML Type Namespace of a BDL type definition.
XMLElementNamespace	Define the default XML namespace of all children defined as XMLElement in a Record.
XMLAttributeNamespace	Define the default XML namespace of all children defined as XMLAttribute in a Record.