>what is the diffence between these two formats

The first one is a standard XML Schema. The second one is something else:
I've no idea what. Possibly some early dialect of XML Schema before the
standard was finished?

> is there some known XSL to go from the second to the first ? 

Not that I know of!

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bru, Pierre [mailto:Pierre.Bru@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 May 2007 14:09
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  various XSD format
> 
> hi,
>  
> I'm used to read XSL file looking like
>  
>   <xsd:element name="EO_Characteristics">
>     <xsd:complexType>
>       <xsd:sequence>
>         <xsd:element ref="EO_REFERENCE" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
>         <xsd:element ref="EO_Originator" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
>         <xsd:element ref="Product_Addressee" minOccurs="1"
> maxOccurs="1"/>
>         <xsd:element ref="SCHEDULED_DATE" minOccurs="0" 
> maxOccurs="1"/>
>         <xsd:element ref="COMMENT_TEXT" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
>       </xsd:sequence>
>     </xsd:complexType>
>   </xsd:element>
>  
> but I receltly when thru one looking like
>  
>   <elementType name="EO_Characteristics">
>     <sequence>
>       <elementTypeRef name="EO_REFERENCE" minOccur="1" maxOccur="1"/>
>       <elementTypeRef name="EO_Originator" minOccur="1" maxOccur="1"/>
>       <elementTypeRef name="Product_Addressee" minOccur="1"
> maxOccur="1"/>
>       <elementTypeRef name="SCHEDULED_DATE" minOccur="0" 
> maxOccur="1"/>
>       <elementTypeRef name="COMMENT_TEXT" minOccur="0" maxOccur="1"/>
>     </sequence>
>   </elementType>
>  
> what is the diffence between these two formats ? is there 
> some known XSL to go from the second to the first ?
>  
> TIA,
> Pierre.