Dear Priscilla,

Thank you so much.  I was trying to leave both the extension and restriction 
in the same element, which is illegal.

To answer your question, I have two versions of a very long XSD file.  I 
wrote an application to the older version and I must now update it to use the 
newer version, so I need to see what changed between the versions.  The 
problem is that the XSD has undergone significant structural and global name 
changes, so a text comparison is useless.  After I "flatten" both versions, 
I'll then be able to do a meaningful text comparison.

Thanks for your help, and for writing your highly-informative book, which 
I've been referring to regularly.


"Priscilla Walmsley" wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You can do it in a single step as:
> 
>   <xs:complexType name="TemperatureType4">
>     <xs:simpleContent>
>       <xs:restriction base="xs:anyType">
>         <xs:simpleType>
>           <xs:restriction base="xs:long">
>             <xs:minInclusive value="0"/>
>           </xs:restriction>
>         </xs:simpleType>
>         <xs:attribute name="AnAttr" type="xs:string"/>
>       </xs:restriction>
>     </xs:simpleContent>
>   </xs:complexType>
> 
> But why would you want to get rid of global types?
> 
> Priscilla
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Priscilla Walmsley
> http://www.datypic.com
> Author, Definitive XML Schema (Prentice Hall 2001)
> XQuery (O'Reilly 2007)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> "uncaged" <uncaged@d...> wrote in message 
> news:25708CF6-628B-4A41-8C4C-2F5335515958@m......
> > I'm writing an XSD flattener, that gets rid of global simple and complex
> > types by merging them into global elements as anonymous types.  Where I'm
> > having trouble is when mixing restriction and extension of a 
> > simpleContent.
> > For example:
> >
> > <xs:simpleType name="positiveLong">
> >  <xs:restriction base="xs:long">
> >    <xs:minInclusive value="0"/>
> >  </xs:restriction>
> > </xs:simpleType>
> >
> > <xs:element name="positiveLongWithAttribute">
> >  <xs:complexType>
> >    <xs:simpleContent>
> >      <xs:extension base="x:positiveLong">
> >        <xs:attribute name="AnAttr" type="xs:string"/>
> >      </xs:extension>
> >    </xs:simpleContent>
> >  </xs:complexType>
> > </xs:element>
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> 
> 
>