Re: xsd:simpletype or <xsd:complexType with simpleContent?

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Dan Vint writes:

> Can someone explain these two constructs and any advantage or
> disadvantage to using one over the other?

As such they have the same validation semantics.  The extension
version can include attribute declarations.

> I see that one seems to allow extension where the other limits me to
> restriction, but I believe even with the extension definition, I could
> not extend my Type by adding additional attributes.
  ^^^

Typo?  You can extend _either_ of these types to get a complex type
defn with simple content and attributes.

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