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Re: Help for finding root node from XML Schema

• To: "Bryce K. Nielsen" <bryce@s...>
• Subject: Re: Help for finding root node from XML Schema
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:57:33 +0100
• Cc: "xml dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <02ce01c38f53$e6e4aeb0$26111eac@PREZ> (Bryce K. Nielsen'smessage of "Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:27:45 -0600")
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"Bryce K. Nielsen" <bryce@s...> writes:

> Otherwise, to avoid this in general schema-design, only have one
> global element, make the rest complexType or simpleType nodes. One
> should also note that for a schema to be valid, you have to have a
> least one global element (as opposed to a bunch of type nodes).

Not so.  A schema document, or even a schema, with nothing but type
definitions is perfectly valid, and indeed useful -- an xsi:type somewhere
in an instance document, e.g. the document element, would get
everything started just fine.

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