Notes for XML Schema 20081231

1.About <choice>, <sequence>, <all> and <group>, also about "max/min occurs". What and why <all> special? There are also <element> and <any>.


2.About namespace. The "namesapce" attribute in <any> and <anyAttribute>.

3.For <group> and <attributeGroup>, usage and why <group> can not contain <element> directly?

4.About attributes, how to declare them?

5.<annotation> contains <appinfo> (for machine) and <documentation> (for human). Each contains a "source" attribute refer to a URI, <documentation> may has "xml:lang" attribute.

6.Which tag can be global and can use "ref" (or "type", "substitution", maybe there's other?) to refer to? DTD dose not support local type. So note that global element or type can provide extra features (which?) than the local ones.

7.Notice the "block" and "abstract" attribute for <complexType> and <element>, why <element> need to use "final" for restriction or extension? Substitution and be used together with derived type, and element's "final" prohibit substitution with certain type, note that there seems no way to prohibit an element from being substitution head. What's the usage of substitution?

8.Why both <complexType> and <complexContent> has "mixed" attribute? Can not specify datatype for "mixed" content.

9.Notice the "default", "fixed", "subsitutionGroup", "form" and "nillable" attributes for <element>. "xsi:nil" attribute is used to expicitly specify that the elements content (not matter it's simpleContent or complexContent) is null, for example, if a element is type of "long", you can not set it to null unless you use "xsi:nil".