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Re: xml element naming

• To: chasee <chaseexmldb@y...>
• Subject: Re: xml element naming
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:40:53 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• Organization: BAH
• References: <20030602170051.67440.qmail@w...>

These are definitely all separate occurrences of the same element. So in
this case, you could declare a global "price" element and reference it
in 3 places as follows:

<xs:element name="price" type="xs:double"/> <!-- Global declaration -->

<xs:element name="suit">
 <xs:complexType>
  <xs:sequence>
   <xs:element ref="price"/>
   <xs:element name="top">
    <xs:complextype>
     <xs:sequence> 
      <xs:element ref="price"/>
      <xs:element name="fabric" type="xs:string"/>
     </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
   </xs:element>
   <xs:element name="trousers">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:element ref="price"/>
    <xs:complexType>
   <xs:element>
  </xs:sequence>
 </xs:complexType>
</element>
...
</schema>

This way, if you change the datatype of "price" in the future, it will
propagate to all the references.

Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton

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