geoff wrote:
> This is how the book has the files (3 of them) but xml notepad says shipTo 
> has to be filled out, I hate it when book examples do not work :(
> 
> 
> ======== INVOICE.XML ==========
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <invoice:invoice xmlns:invoice="http://www.skatestown.com/ns/invoice"
>    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.skatestown.com/ns/invoice
>                        ./invoice.xsd"
>    id="43871" submitted="2004-01-05" customerId="73852">
>    <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"/>


shipTo is defined here

>  <xsd:complexType name="invoiceType">
>   <xsd:sequence>
>    <xsd:element name="billTo" type="po:addressType" />
>    <xsd:element name="shipTo" type="po:addressType" />
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
as being of type po:addressType and that is defined here

>  <xsd:complexType name="addressType">
>   <xsd:sequence>
>    <xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
>    <xsd:element name="company" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
>    <xsd:element name="street" type="xsd:string" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
>    <xsd:element name="city" type="xsd:string" />
>    <xsd:element name="state" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
>    <xsd:element name="postalCode" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
>    <xsd:element name="country" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
>   </xsd:sequence>
>   <xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:ID" />
>   <xsd:attribute name="href" type="xsd:IDREF" />
>  </xsd:complexType>

It has mandatory child elements like street and city.

As said in my reply to your first post, IDREF does not mean that the 
referenced element is included.


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