XML Schema Question: attributing an element with a datatype?

[Stefan Haustein]

"Roger L. Costello" wrote:
> 
> I reckon that I will answer my own question.  To give the cost element
> an attribute currency, where the type of cost is the datatype money, you
> declare it as follows:
> 
>             <element name="cost">
>                 <type source="money">
>                     <attribute name="currency" minOccurs="1">
>                         <datatype name="currencies" source="string">
>                             <enumeration value="USD"/>
>                             <enumeration value="CND"/>
>                         </datatype>
>                     </attribute>
>                 </type>
>             </element>
> 
> The element "type" has an optional attribute "source" which I set to the
> datatype "money".

I do not belive that will work. type source="..." is probably
not intended to look into the (different) datatype namespace.
I hope the Schema people will make this more explicit, e.g.
by changing datatype references to datatype="xxx" attribute.

I think the original idea is that datatype-elements just cannot have
attributes, but I am not sure if that is really a good idea.

Best regards

Stefan

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