Keeping the order of a mixed sequence

[tstumm]

Hi,

I'm currently working on a project where a complex type may contain a sequence of mixed types, i.e.

<choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
    <element name="label" type="ns:labelType"/>
    <element name="text" type="ns:textType"/>
    <element name="select" type="ns:selectType"/>
    <element name="checkbox" type="ns:checkboxType"/>
 </choice>

The generated classes nicely group them into different attributes BUT I really need to keep track of the actual order of those in the XML I'm parsing. Is there any way to do this using xsd2php?

[goetas]

getElements() Should return the elements in the same order as in the XSD, does it help?

But in general, XSD is a type system much more powerful than PHP, so some features most probably are not available.

[tstumm]

Maybe I should clarify this a bit. I need to retain the order of the elements stated in the XML, i.e. I need an array of type (labelType|textType|selectType|checkboxType)[] after deserialization.

My best guess is that this can be done by using a custom class for the complex type.

[goetas]

I guess so... but this kind of edge cases are not handled already..