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> How do you create a single XML vocabulary, and validate that XML > vocabulary, for a community that has sub-groups that have overlapping > but different data needs? > > > EXAMPLE > > Consider the book community. It is comprised of: > > - book sellers > - book distributors > - book printers > > They have overlapping, but different data needs. > > For example, the data needed by a book seller is: > > - the title of the book > - the author of the book > - the date of publication > - the ISBN > - the publisher > > The book distributor has many of the same data needs, but also some > differences: > > - the title of the book > - the author of the book > - the size of the book > - the weight of the book > - the mailing cost > > And the book printer has overlapping but different needs: > > - the size of the book > - the number of pages > > How does the book community deal with such differing needs? Couldn't you just have three schema's each containing their own definition of <book>, which import a common schema where everything else is defined? The book sellers will use book-seller.xsd, the distributor will use book-distributor.xsd etc... seems simple enough? -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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