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    <p>Is there some sensible way to have elements with strongly-typed simple-types and also attributes?</p> <p>Okay, I have an XSD schema which has a million (er, hundred) elements that might look like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsd:element name="DocumentDescription" type="xsd:string" /&gt; &lt;xsd:element name="DocumentDateTime" type="xsd:dateTime" /&gt; &lt;xsd:element name="DocumentSize" type="xsd:int" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>That's dandy. However, I really want all of these elements to also have some common attributes on them like, let's say, "format" and "isVisible". i.e. have a schema like:</p> <pre><code>&lt;DocumentDescription isVisible="true"&gt;doc description&lt;/DocumentDescription&gt; &lt;DocumentDateTime format="dd/mm/yyyy" isVisible="true"&gt;1/1/2008&lt;/DocumentDescription&gt; &lt;DocumentSize format="0.00 KB" isVisible="false"&gt;5403&lt;/DocumentSize&gt; </code></pre> <p>I could do it manually, and horribly, by adding all such attributes to the XSD when I generate it, something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsd:element name="DocumentDescription" /&gt; &lt;xsd:complexType&gt; &lt;xsd:simpleContent&gt; &lt;xsd:extension base="xsd:string"&gt; &lt;xsd:attribute name="format" type="xsd:string" /&gt; &lt;xsd:attribute name="isVisible" type="xsd:boolean" /&gt; &lt;/xsd:extension&gt; &lt;/xsd:simpleContent&gt; &lt;/xsd:complexType&gt; &lt;xsd:element name="DocumentDateTime" /&gt; ... etc </code></pre> <p>...but in an ideal world I'd rather define it as a complexType:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsd:complexType name="customType"&gt; &lt;xsd:complexContent&gt; &lt;xsd:extension base="???"&gt; &lt;xsd:attribute name="format" type="xsd:string" /&gt; &lt;xsd:attribute name="isVisible" type="xsd:boolean" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>...which means I could just do:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsd:element name="DocumentDescription" type="customType" baseType="xsd:string" /&gt; &lt;xsd:element name="DocumentDateTime" type="customType" baseType="xsd:dateTime" /&gt; &lt;xsd:element name="DocumentSize" type="customType" baseType="xsd:int" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>The problem with my "ideal world" code is that:</p> <p><strong>a)</strong> I've no valid <code>&lt;xsd:extension base-"???"</code>>, since really I don't care what I'm extending; I want to extend all types. Seems like the "xsd:anyType" is appropriate, yet then the element becomes a weakly typed container does it not?</p> <p><strong>b)</strong> I can no longer specify the simple type on the <code>&lt;xsd:element</code>>, since now the type is the complex "customType" I defined. Hence the imaginary "baseType" attribute I put there...</p> <p>So can I add attributes to simple types in a non-clunky way? Or do I need to define a dozen complexTypes that are all identical except for the simple type that they extend?</p> <p>Strongly-typed elements not only describe the data more sensibly, but when I use them for XML mapping in Excel (and this is the whole purpose behind these things), the strong-typing means that Excel sets the cell formatting correctly based on the type.</p> <p>I'm probably looking at it all the wrong way! Any advice appreciated.</p>
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