Posts Tagged 'schema'

Schema Validation for Joomla 2.5 Extensions

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Category: Joomla

Published on Monday, 18 March 2013 19:46

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I’ve created from scratch, all Joomla extensions XSD.

Without them, Joomla accept any entry in manifest xml and never complains about

• Mistyping, like a valid xml but that the Joomla installer do not understand or only partially,
• Wrong constructs, xml tag child misplaced,
• Invalid data type, like a path not being a valid path, an expected integer being a text and so on…

Joomla just silently die during install or install only partially extensions. These days are over as developers with any decent IDE will be able to validate while typing and enjoy auto completion. To use them now just include them in all your manifest like this:

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Code generation from XSD with JAXB and Maven

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Category: Apache Maven

Published on Friday, 13 November 2009 00:00

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What you will learn in this small post

• How to create JAXB proxies at build time using maven-jaxb2-plugin in a continuous build environment (TeamCity / Bamboo)
• How to generate from an XSD file (XML-Schema-Definitions) Java code.

Requirements

• We will use JAXB2 (see JSR 222 and JAXB 2.x).
• We use Maven 2.2.1, the latest available version

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