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Re: using derivation by extension

• To: Avinash Subramanya <avinashs@a...>
• Subject: Re: using derivation by extension
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: 31 Mar 2003 09:21:40 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <342F6DED4DF4D511AA5A00B0D079FEE30226DB7B@MAYA>
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Avinash Subramanya <avinashs@a...> writes:

> Hi,
> 
>      <complexType name="base1">
> 	<sequence>
> 	    <element name="ELEM1" type="int" />
>             </sequence>
>      </complexType>
> 
>      <complexType name="derived1">
>            <complexContent>
>                  <extension base="base1">
> 		<sequence>
>                               <element name="ELEM2" type="int" />
>                         </sequence>
> 	     </extension>
>            </complexContent>
>      </complexType>
> 
>      Is there a way to make ELEM2 appear before ELEM1 in the instance doc.
>      i.e I want my instance doc to look like this:
> 
>     <sample>
>        <ELEM2>1</ELEM2>
>        <ELEM1>0</ELEM1>
>     </sample>

Sorry, no -- extension in W3C XML Schema is at the end only, so that
processors expecting the original type can process without surprises.

ht
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