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Hi Dan, I'll do my best to answer your questions about redefine and I think the most important thing to remember about redefine is that (as described in the Primer [1]), once a type has been redefined, the redefined type applies to all schema components that make use of the type. So... (see comments inline)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>This schema is not valid. Only the type/group that you want to redefine should be within the <xsd:redefine> element. In this case you redefine the top complexType so this is the only complexType that should appear within redefine. So, move the complexType bottom outside the redefine element. Will an element of type bottom contain an element named number?Yes Essentially, since middle extends top in upper_level.xsd, and top is redefined in lower_level.xsd will middle extend from this new redefinition of top, or still extend the older version?Middle will extend from the redefinition of top More importantly (for me anyway) if the following two Schemas also exist and are related to the first two:This schema is missing the complexType element in the element declaration of finalElement. Since upper_level.xsd is included through both other_level.xsd and lower_level.xsd by final_level.xsd will the complexType definition used to define the top complexType (that is the type for the floor element) be the one in upper_level.xsd or the redefined version lower_level.xsd?The redefined version in lower_level.xsd Also, since the above element references the ceiling complexType, which has an element of complexType top will this sub element (up) still be of the complexType top as defined in upper_level.xsd or will it automatically become of the complexType top redefined in lower_level.xsd (even though other_level.xsd makes no reference to lower_level.xsd)?The redefined complexType in lower_level.xsd My guess is that anything new that reference top (either an element or an complexType that uses extension) will use the most *redefined*version.Yes However, the up element will still be of complexType top as defined in upper_level.xsd.No, this will also use the redefined type. This means that a valid instance for your final_level schema would be: <finalElement xmlns="namespace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="namespace final_level.xsd">
Cheers,
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