geoff wrote:

> Why does this not work:
> 
>    <billTo id="addr-1">
>       <company>The Skateboard Warehouse</company>
>       <street>One Warehouse Park</street>
>       <street>Building 17</street>
>       <city>Boston</city>
>       <state>MA</state>
>       <postalCode>01775</postalCode>
>    </billTo>
> 
>    <shipTo href="addr-1"/>
> 
> . . . billTo and shipTo are defined as the same in the schema and I included 
> the following in the schema definition:
> 
>      <xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:ID"/>
>       <xsd:attribute name="href" type="xsd:IDREF"/>
> 
> . . . however, xml notepad says, 'the element shipTo has incomplete 
> contents'.  If I populate shipTo with the same info as billTo, it works fine 
> but the referencing of billTo does not seem to work or is it a limitation of 
> xml notepad?

If the schema for shipTo defines child elements then you have to include 
those child elements literally. There is no way to include them using a 
link mechanism, that is not how XSD schemas work.
All ID/IDREF allow you is to refer to other components for instance
   <address id="addr1">
       <company>The Skateboard Warehouse</company>
       <street>One Warehouse Park</street>
       <street>Building 17</street>
       <city>Boston</city>
       <state>MA</state>
       <postalCode>01775</postalCode>
   </address>

   <billTo href="addr1"/>
   <shipTo href="addr1"/>
but then the schema would not define child elements for billTo and 
shipTo, it would just define the attribute and its type.


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