From e027c000c00c6effcfcc6c78cadf50e03b1f4523 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Boverhof <jrboverhof@lbl.gov>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:01:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 
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 Modified Files:  	XMLSchema.py -- added a couple convenience methods for
 grabbing            various Schema Items.

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---
 XMLSchema.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/XMLSchema.py b/XMLSchema.py
index 3894791..c884efe 100755
--- a/XMLSchema.py
+++ b/XMLSchema.py
@@ -534,6 +534,12 @@ class XMLSchemaComponent(XMLBase, MarkerInterface):
         """
         return self.getQNameAttribute('elements', attribute)
 
+    def getModelGroup(self, attribute):
+        """attribute -- attribute with a QName value (eg. ref).
+           collection -- check model_group collection in parent Schema instance.
+        """
+        return self.getQNameAttribute('model_groups', attribute)
+
     def getQNameAttribute(self, collection, attribute):
         """returns object instance representing QName --> (namespace,name),
            or if does not exist return None.
@@ -2175,6 +2181,9 @@ class ModelGroupReference(XMLSchemaComponent,\
         XMLSchemaComponent.__init__(self, parent)
         self.annotation = None
 
+    def getModelGroupReference(self):
+        return self.getModelGroup('ref')
+
     def fromDom(self, node):
         self.setAttributes(node)
         contents = self.getContents(node)
@@ -2691,6 +2700,11 @@ class SimpleType(XMLSchemaComponent,\
             self.annotation = None
             self.content = None
 
+        def getSimpleTypeContent(self):
+            for el in self.content:
+                if el.isSimple(): return el
+            return None
+
         def fromDom(self, node):
             self.setAttributes(node)
             contents = self.getContents(node)