[Xml-compile] Schema interpretation

[Kaare Rasmussen]

Kaare Rasmussen writes: 

> Hi  
> 
> I'm a bit stuck with this construct. This is from a .NET schema, and I'm 
> trying to access the web service as a client.  
> 
> <xs:element name="GetDetails">
> <xs:complexType>
> <xs:sequence>
> <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Identifiers" nillable="true" 
> type="q3:ArrayOfstring" 
> xmlns:q3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
> </xs:sequence>
> </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>  
> 
> I would naively think that the call should look like this  
> 
> ($answer, $trace) = $GetDetails->(Identifiers => [qw/id1 id2/] );  
> 
> But this responds with an error:
> ARRAY(0x1de0400) is no HASH at 
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/XML/Compile/Translate/Writer.pm line 460.
> error: complex `x0:Identifiers' requires a HASH of input data, not `ARRAY' 
> at {...namespace...}GetDetails/Identifiers  
> 
> This call actually works:  
> 
> ($answer, $trace) = $GetDetails->(Identifiers => {string => 'id1'} );  
> 
> And it responds with details for id1. But is not very useful if I want 
> more ids.  
> 
> So my question is, what interpretation is right? .NET or XML::Compile?

I failed to include the definition of ArrayOfString. It is in another xsd 
file, but it looks OK to me. 


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" 
targetNamespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays" 
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:tns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"> 

<xs:complexType name="ArrayOfstring">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" name="string" 
nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:element name="ArrayOfstring" nillable="true" type="tns:ArrayOfstring"/>
</xs:schema>