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- From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- To: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: 10 Feb 2000 13:29:31 +0000
Stefan Haustein <haustein@kimo.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> If that holds not only for Simon, I would like to ask why XML schema
> needs both <element> and <type>. It looks like they both correspond
> to the class concept in OOP. See
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2000JanMar/0101.html
Because several elements may share a type: this is illustrated in the
lengthy example in chapter 2 in the current PWD [1]. If having looked
at that you still don't understand, please come back with a question
based on that example if possible.
ht
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#concepts-types
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