- From: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 20:13:51 -0700
- To: "Brenda Bell" <bbell@juicesoftware.com>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brenda Bell [mailto:bbell@juicesoftware.com]
Sent: Sat 7/20/2002 5:54 PM
To: 'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'
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Subject: Question about complexContent restriction
I'm trying really hard to understand this schema stuff, but the examples I'm finding are making it difficult :)
I found the following example:
<xs:complexType name="address">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="street" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="city" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="zipcode" type="xs:integer" />
<xs:element name="country" type="xs:string" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="USAddress">
<xs:complexContent>
<xs:restriction base="address">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="street" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="city" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="zipcode" type="xs:integer" />
<xs:element name="country" type="xs:string" fixed="US" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>
It appears that USAddress does nothing more than redefine address with the additional restriction that country's value be fixed to "US". Seems I could have gotten the same results by defining complexContent without the restriction so I'm thinking there must be more to a restriction that what this example shows.
What am I missing? Better yet, I'd love to see other examples of where you would actually use a restriction to see if I can figure it out for myself.
Brenda Bell
Sr. Software Architect
Juice Software, Inc.
Phone: 603.428.3994
Cell: 603.494.8206
Fax: 603.428.8713
Email: bbell@juicesoftware.com
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Received on Saturday, 20 July 2002 23:14:25 UTC