- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 01 Mar 2001 19:40:19 +0000
- To: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@scenicsoft.com>
- Cc: "'www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org'" <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
Jeff Lowery <jlowery@scenicsoft.com> writes:
> The spec states that simpleContent can restrict an existing simple type, but
> within the context of defining a complex type I can't see how it would be
> used. Since a simple type can't have an attribute, and a complex type with
> simple content would be expected to have at least one, how can restricting a
> simple type be of any use in that case? One would just use an anonymous
> simple type and restrict that.
<xs:complexType name="length">
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:extension base="xs:integer">
<xs:attribute name="units"/>
</xs:extension>
</xs:simpleContent>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="posLength">
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:restriction base="length">
<xs:minExclusive value="0"/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleContent>
</xs:complexType>
Does this help? Both posLength and length allow a 'units' attribute,
but where length allows an integer as content, posLength requires a
positive one.
ht
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