Noah,

I had already tried your suggestion. With:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <xs:complexType name="ObjId" abstract="true"/>
    <xs:complexType name="CarId">
        <xs:simpleContent>
            <xs:extension base="ObjId"/>
        </xs:simpleContent>
    </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

First, as you can see, the actual type of CarId is not defined.

IBM SQC says:
Description: SEVERITY: 1 ERROR TYPE: 1 When <simpleContent> is used and 
the type is derived by extension, the content type of the basetype must 
be a simple type. empty content model is the  content type of the 
basetype, ObjId. It does not correspond to a simple type.

SaxonSA says:
Description: The type DebitId has simple content so it cannot be derived 
by extension from the type ObjId which has complex content

Guillaume



noah_mendelsohn@u... wrote:
> I haven't thought through your example in great detail, but my intuition 
> is that it can be handled by deriving not simple types, but complex types 
> with simple content.  Complex types with simple content are usually used 
> in cases where you want an element like this:
>
>         <e a="1">234</e>
>
> where the element is complex (because it has attributes) but has content 
> (in this case the 234) of simple type (perhaps xs:integer).  So, if what 
> you're after is:
>
>         <car refid="xxxx">corvette</car>
>
> then that's what you'd want.   In fact, even if what you want is 
>
>         <car>corvette</car>
>
> which has no attributes, you can derive a complex type with simple content 
> (perhaps string in this case), that just happens to have no attributes. 
>
> Noah
>
> --------------------------------------
> Noah Mendelsohn 
> IBM Corporation
> One Rogers Street
> Cambridge, MA 02142
> 1-617-693-4036
> --------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>   


From petexmldev@t... Fri Mar 09 10:31:04 2007
Received: from aji.w3.org ([133.27.228.22