- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 09 Mar 2001 10:43:43 +0000
- To: "Ben Marchal (Mailing Lists)" <bulk@pineapplesoft.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
"Ben Marchal (Mailing Lists)" <bulk@pineapplesoft.com> writes:
> Hello
>
> I'm preparing a new paper on XML Schema and two issues are unclear to me. Id
> be grateful for any clarifications.
>
>
> Specifically, when an element contains a sequence of elements, I use
> xsd:complexType to define it. My question is do I have to insert a
> xsd:sequence element in there or can I just list the element?
You must use <xsd:sequence> (or <xsd:all> or <xsd:choice>).
> The second issue is I'm not sure I understand the practical differences
> between xsd:group and xsd:sequence.
<xsd:group name="xxx">...</xsd:group> is for _nameing_ a
sequence/choice/all.
<xsd:group ref="xxx"/> is for incorporating such a named
sequence/choice/all.
ht
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