• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: 10 Feb 2000 13:29:31 +0000

Stefan Haustein <haustein@k...> 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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