I have a number of very similar XSD templates, only different by a few attributes.

The common parts of the schema I would like to keep together as a type and then bag the extra attributes apart.

The extra atributes would be 'required' in some templates but not necessary in other ones

I have tried a number of things that don't seem to compile

Any hints or examples?

Thanks

Albretch wrote:
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> I have a number of very similar XSD templates, only different by a
> few attributes.
>
> The common parts of the schema I would like to keep together as a
> type and then bag the extra attributes apart.
>
> The extra atributes would be 'required' in some templates but not
> necessary in other ones
>
> I have tried a number of things that don't seem to compile
>
> Any hints or examples?[/color]

You can compose schemas with xs:include and xs:import and you can create
base types and then extend types, see
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#abstract>

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