Re: [xml-dev] using derivation by extension

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

Avinash Subramanya <avinashs@aztec.soft.net> 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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