Re: Help on XML Schema generation using XSLT

Densil,

XML Schema recognizes several built-in simple types for defining the format of data.  Here are some of those that may interest you:

* date
* time
* dateTime

* decimal
* integer
* nonNegativeInteger
* positiveInteger

You can do your own research to discover more about the definitions of these built-in simple types, but I recommend buying the book from Priscilla Walmsley.  She has a diagram of those types on page 222 and then fully defines each type in accordance with the specification for the remainder of that chapter.  I strongly recommend you pickup that book, unless somebody else can recommend a different better book.  It is the only reference I have ever used and taught myself to write new languages solely from reading that book, of which my big one resulted in a patent application for a feature unrelated to Schema.  That book is, as a result, the most valuable investment I have made in my career.

Here is an example of simple types where decimals and dates are distinguished:

<xs:element name="parentElement">
    <xs:complexType>
        <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element ref="firstChild_decimal"/>
            </xs:element ref="secondChild_date"/>
        </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="firstChild_decimal">
    <xs:simpleType>
        <xs:restriction base="xs:decimal"/>
    </xs:simpleType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="secondChild_date">
    <xs:simpleType>
        <xs:restriction base="xs:date"/>
    </xs:simpleType>
</xs:element>

Austin
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