I have an XSD where I define an enumeration specifying numerical values for each element. It looks as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:tns="http://mariusbancila.ro/demo/1.0" xmlns:ser="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/" elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="http://mariusbancila.ro/demo/1.0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:simpleType name="statusCode">
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:enumeration value="none"/>
<xs:enumeration value="alpha">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<EnumerationValue xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">100</EnumerationValue>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:enumeration>
<xs:enumeration value="beta">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<EnumerationValue xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">200</EnumerationValue>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:enumeration>
<xs:enumeration value="gamma">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<EnumerationValue xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">300</EnumerationValue>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:enumeration>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
<xs:element name="demo">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="id" type="xs:integer"/>
<xs:element name="status" type="tns:statusCode"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
I use xsd.exe to generate C# classes from this (xsd.exe /namespace:Demo /language:cs /c demo.xsd). The result is as follows:
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.8.3928.0")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace="http://mariusbancila.ro/demo/1.0")]
public enum statusCode {
/// <remarks/>
none,
/// <remarks/>
alpha,
/// <remarks/>
beta,
/// <remarks/>
gamma,
}
My expectation is that I get the following:
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.8.3928.0")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace="http://mariusbancila.ro/demo/1.0")]
public enum statusCode {
/// <remarks/>
none,
/// <remarks/>
alpha = 100,
/// <remarks/>
beta = 200,
/// <remarks/>
gamma = 300,
}
My problem with this is that the numerical values of these enums have been stored in a database. In a next version, the enum in the XSD has changed, with new enum values generated by xsd.exe in between the previous ones. For example:
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.8.3928.0")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace="http://mariusbancila.ro/demo/2.0")]
public enum statusCode {
/// <remarks/>
none,
/// <remarks/>
alpha,
/// <remarks/>
beta,
/// <remarks/>
delta, // this is now 3
/// <remarks/>
gamma, // this used to be 3, now it's 4
}
And this messed up the handling of the stored numerical values in other parts of the system.
Therefore, I'm looking for a way to generate the C# code with the numerical values. I know I can manually edit the result, but that is error-prone and requires manual intervention each time the XSD changes, which is something I definitely want to avoid.