• From: "Karr, David" <david.karr@w...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:02:01 -0700

In your experience with tools that generate code from XML schemas, do they typically respect, or ignore, user-defined simple types, like length restrictions on xsd:string?

I'm currently reading Thomas Erl's new book, "Web Service Contract Design & Versioning for SOA", where he makes the statement that "most" tools ignore them.  I believe this would result in code-driven validation of XML documents ignoring issues with element values outside of the defined length restrictions.  I believe almost everything Thomas Erl tells me :) , but I'd really like to see some more support for this statement before I believe it.