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Martin Gudgin wrote: > > I left out the top-level element decl for conciseness. How's this; > > <xs:schema xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' > xmlns:this='urn:example.org.people' > targetNamespace='urn:example.org.people' > > > <xs:complexType name='person' > > <xs:sequence> > <xs:element name='given' type='xs:string' /> > <xs:element name='family' type='xs:string' /> > </xs:sequence> > </xs:complexType> > > <xs:element name='person' type='this:person' /> > > </xs:schema> > > It's *both* an element and a complex type. > it gets very difficult to follow what is being said when the same name is being used for two separate things, one an element and another a complexType. it seems to me that: 1) the "given" and "family" elements _are not_ locally scoped to the "person" element. this is completely akin to: <!ENTITY % person.model "(given,family)"> <!ELEMENT given (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT family (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT person %person.model;> in this case I can also do: <!ELEMENT another.person %person.model;> similarly <xs:element name="another.person" type="this:person"/> 2) it also looks like all these elements are in the same namespace (as I suggested). -Jonathan
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