• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
  • What Is an XML Schema?
  • Creating an XML Schema in Stylus Studio
  • Working with XML Schema in Stylus Studio
  • Getting Started with XML Schema in the Tree View
  • Defining simpleTypes in XML Schemas
  • Defining complexTypes in XML Schemas
  • Defining Elements and Attributes in XML Schemas
  • Defining Groups of Elements and Attributes in XML Schemas
  • Adding Comments, Annotation, and Documentation Nodes to XML Schemas
  • Defining Notations
  • Referencing External XML Schemas
  • Generating Documentation for XML Schema
  • Generating JAXB Classes
  • About XML Schema Properties
    • About xsd:schema Properties
    • Element and Element Reference Properties in XML Schemas
    • Attribute and Attribute Reference Properties in XML Schemas
    • Group Properties in XML Schemas
    • Model Group Properties in XML Schemas
    • Complex and simpleType Properties in XML Schemas
    • Restriction and Extension Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Content Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Aggregator Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Facet Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Notation Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Include Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Import Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Redefine Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Identity Constraint Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Constraint Element Type Properties in XML Schemas
    • Documentation Type Properties in XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Restriction and Extension Type Properties in XML Schemas

When you define a simpleType, you always derive it from a built-in XML Schema simpleType, or a simpleType you previously defined. To specify the simpleType that your simpleType is based on, add a restriction node or an extension node to your simpleType node.

A restriction node indicates that your simpleType is a subset of some other simpleType. An extension node indicates that your simpleType extends the range of values provided by an existing simpleType.

Restriction type nodes and extension type nodes have the properties described in Table 48: