- From: Gino Basso <GBasso@ware2.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:40:14 -0500
- To: "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
David Valera wrote: > what about this: > > <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"> > <xsd:element name="Cat" type="AnimalType"/> > <xsd:element name="Dog" type="AnimalType"/> > <xsd:complexType name="AnimalType"> > <xsd:sequence> > <xsd:element name="height" .../> > <xsd:element name="weight" .../> > </xsd:sequence> > </xsd:complexType> > ... > </xsd:schema> > > I recall using a construction like this when I started with XML schema's. > XMLSpy did validate, but I am not quite sure if it is allowed. I prefer > using different XML schema's... This is correct (as was Eric's last suggestion). And from what I understand I don't think there's any requirement that a schema only describe one class of document. Any global element for a schema may be used as the root element of an instance document. Gino Basso Ware2 Software Corp.
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