Hi,

Have a look at the personal.xsd/personal-schema.xml samples from Xerces J.

http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-xerces/java/data/
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-xerces/java/data/personal.xsd?view=markup
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xml-xerces/java/data/personal-schema.xml?content-type=text%2Fplain

Best Regards,
George
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Yang Feng wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>  
> 
> I am new to XML schema. I wonder if I can use self reference in XML 
> schema. In my XML data, the EMPLOYEE element contains MANAGER element. 
> MANAGER is also an EMPLOYEE. How can I use XML schema to define this 
> relationship without repeating the same code for EMPLOYEE and MANAGER 
> elements?
> 
> Is there any sample code? The XML have the following structure:
> 
>  
> 
> <EMPLOYEE>
> 
>             <ID />
> 
>             <name />
> 
>              <MANAGER>
> 
>                         <ID />
> 
>                         <name />
> 
>             </MANAGER>
> 
> </EMPLOYEE>
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
>  
> 
> Yolande
> 

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