Naming Conventions for Event Type Elements
When you assign names to the tree nodes in an event type, the following naming rules apply:
The node names of all field nodes, composite nodes and reference nodes that reference an XSD element must be unique.
If a reference node points to an XSD element, then the name is not editable.
If a reference node points to an XSD simple type or XSD complex type, you can edit the name, provided that the new name is unique.
EDA applications can have naming conventions that disallow the use of certain node names in the event type. For example, continuous query applications use the node names as field names in Event Query Language (EQL) statements, but EQL does not allow field names to be EQL keywords or Java type names. Therefore, when you create an event type, ensure that the node names comply with all such restrictions of the applications that will use the event type.
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