以下文為基礎，進行分析

Long Term Persistence of JavaBeans Components: XML Schema

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence3/

1Basic Elements

每個xml以一個可選的

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

開頭，接著是

<java version="1.4.0" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
...objects go here...
</java>

其中，version,class這個兩個屬性似乎已經不使用了。

<java>..</java>中間填充的是組成xml文檔的objects，以被解碼器readObject的順序出現。

2Objects

每個object由創建它的一系列方法，按序排列來代表。

每個xml元素都代表一個方法調用。這些方法：一，創建了object（對應一個表達式expression）；二，影響了object(對應一個語句statement)。

strings被看作特殊的expressions,標識符（identifiers）用來在object創建之后再引用object時使用的。

3Strings

xml中的原子表達式，

<string>Hello, World</string>

The '<' and '&' characters are represented by the &lt; and &amp; escape sequences.

4Expressions and Statements

expression是有返回值的方法調用，表示為：<object>

statement是沒有返回值的方法調用。表示為：<void>

兩個元素都有一個method屬性，表示調用的方法。

<object>的class 屬性指定作為一個靜態方法的目標的class，構造函數表示為：一個名為new的靜態方法。

當expression,statement進一步還包含expressions，則這些expressions作為前兩者所代表的方法的參數。

所以，

<object class="javax.swing.JButton" method="new">
<string>Press me</string>
</object>

代表的java 語句是

new JButton("Press me");

還可以表示為:

<object class="javax.swing.JButton">
<string>Press me</string>
</object>

因為，new是默認的方法。

將影響一個object（由expression產生）的方法（一個statement）放到這個object里去，如下：

<object class="javax.swing.JButton">
<void method="setText">
<string>Hello, world</string>
</void>
</object>

即為：

JButton b = new JButton();
b.setText("Hello, world");

If an expression should not be used as an argument to the enclosing method, it should be represented with the <void> tag. The result of an expression in a <void> tag is still evaluated and used by any objects it encloses.（待考）

嵌套expression,statement的能力減少了描述圖形時使用的identifier的數目。

5標識符

有時，用<object>聲明了一個對象之后，可能會在其他地方再次用到該對象，所以要定義identifier：

<object id="button1" class="javax.swing.JButton"/>

id是全局的，從聲明起。

例子：

<object class="javax.swing.JPanel">
<void method="add">
<object id="button1" class="javax.swing.JButton"/>
</void>
<void method="add">
<object class="javax.swing.JLabel">
<void method="setLabelFor">
<object idref="button1"/>
</void>
</object>
</void>
</object>

即為：

JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
JButton button1 = new JButton();
JLabel label1 = new JLabel();
panel1.add(button1);
panel1.add(label1);
label1.setLabelFor(button1);

id還可以這樣用：

<object class="java.util.Date">
<void id="now" method="getTime"/>
</object>

It allows an expression to be evaluated in the context of the enclosing instance, in this case defining the variable now as the value of the expression. It corresponds to the following Java code: （待考）

long now = new Date().getTime();

6縮寫詞Abbreviation

上述知識，足夠使用XMLEncoder，下面是高級知識，可以讓xml更簡單：

primitives

The following tags represent both the primitive types and their corresponding wrapper classes:
<boolean>
<byte>
<char>
<short>
<int>
<long>
<float>
<double>

例如：

<object class="java.lang.Integer">
<string>123</string>
</object>

可簡寫為：

<int>123</int>

null

<null/>

class

The <class> tag can be used to represent an instance of Class. For example,

<object class="java.lang.Class method="forName">
<string>java.awt.event.ActionListener</string>
</object>
is shortened to

<class>java.awt.event.ActionListener</class>

which is equivalent to ActionListener.class.

Static Constants
(only in releases after 1.4.0 beta) （待考）

As of the release following 1.4.0 beta, the values of static constants may be written using the class and field attributes to specify the declaring class and field name of the constant, respectively. Thus

<void class="javax.swing.JTable" method="getField">
<string>AUTO_RESIZE_OFF</string>
<void id="Integer0" method="get">
<null/>
</void>
</void>
<object idref="Integer0"/>

is shortened to

<object class="javax.swing.JTable" field="AUTO_RESIZE_OFF"/>

property

以get,set開頭的方法可以簡寫：

如，<void method="getText"/>
is shortened to:

<void property="text"/>

如，

<void method="setText">
<string>Hello, world</string>
</void>
is shortened to:

<void property="text">
<string>Hello, world</string>
</void>

Index

繼承于java.util,list接口的get,set方法可以簡寫為：

<void method="get">
<int>3</int>
<void>
is shortened to

<void index="3"/>
which corresponds to the following Java code:

Object o = aList.get(3);

又，

<void index="3">
<string>Hello, world</string>
</void>
is equivalent to

<void method="set">
<int>3</int>
<string>Hello, world</string>
</void>
which corresponds to the following Java code:

aList.set(3, "Hello, world")

array

用<array>來表示數組，

<array class="java.awt.Component" length="3"/>
It corresponds to the following Java code:

Component[] a = new Component[3];

version1。4之后，還可以：

<array class="int">
<int>123</int>
<int>456</int>
</array>
represents the following Java code fragment:

int[] intArray = {123, 456};

which represents JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF.

The Top Level environment

定義在<java></java>這個層次的一些高級屬性，涉及到XMLDecoder（待考）

7DTD

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence3/javabeans.dtd

一個例子：

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence3/Browse.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<java version="1.4.0" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
<object class="javax.swing.JFrame">
<void id="JPanel0" property="contentPane">
<void method="add">
<object id="JLabel0" class="javax.swing.JLabel">
<void property="text">
<string>URL:</string>
</void>
<void property="location">
<object class="java.awt.Point">
<int>10</int>
<int>10</int>
</object>
</void>
</object>
</void>
<void method="add">
<object id="JScrollPane0" class="javax.swing.JScrollPane">
<void property="preferredSize">
<object class="java.awt.Dimension">
<int>500</int>
<int>300</int>
</object>
</void>
<void property="viewport">
<void method="add">
<object id="JEditorPane0" class="javax.swing.JEditorPane"/>
</void>
</void>
<void property="location">
<object class="java.awt.Point">
<int>10</int>
<int>40</int>
</object>
</void>
</object>
</void>
<void method="add">
<object id="JTextField0" class="javax.swing.JTextField">
<void property="text">
<string>file:///C:/</string>
</void>
<void method="addActionListener">
<object class="java.beans.EventHandler" method="create">
<class>java.awt.event.ActionListener</class>
<object idref="JEditorPane0"/>
<string>page</string>
<string>source.text</string>
</object>
</void>
<void property="location">
<object class="java.awt.Point">
<int>62</int>
<int>10</int>
</object>
</void>
</object>
</void>
<void property="layout">
<object class="javax.swing.SpringLayout">
<void method="putConstraint">
<string>East</string>
<object idref="JTextField0"/>
<int>0</int>
<string>East</string>
<object idref="JScrollPane0"/>
</void>
<void method="putConstraint">
<string>West</string>
<object idref="JTextField0"/>
<int>10</int>
<string>East</string>
<object idref="JLabel0"/>
</void>
<void method="putConstraint">
<string>South</string>
<object idref="JPanel0"/>
<int>10</int>
<string>South</string>
<object idref="JScrollPane0"/>
</void>
<void method="putConstraint">
<string>East</string>
<object idref="JPanel0"/>
<int>10</int>
<string>East</string>
<object idref="JScrollPane0"/>
</void>
<void method="putConstraint">
<string>North</string>
<object idref="JScrollPane0"/>
<int>40</int>
<string>North</string>
<object idref="JPanel0"/>
</void>
</object>
</void>
</void>
<void method="pack"/>
<void property="visible">
<boolean>true</boolean>
</void>
</object>
</java>

XMLEncoder生成的xml文檔的schema分析