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[gss]

First, I am evaluating OxygenXML and so far have found it to be a very good, capable xml and xml schema development tool. Thank you!

That said, I am also relatively new to xml schemas, their syntax and capabilities for describing a particular xml syntax. So, given this example schema code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified">
    <xs:complexType name="BaseElementType">
        <xs:attribute name="Attr1" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
        <xs:attribute name="Attr2" type="xs:unsignedByte" use="optional"/>
        <xs:attribute name="Attr3" type="xs:unsignedShort" use="optional"/>
    </xs:complexType>
    <xs:element name="Element1" type="BaseElementType">
        <xs:annotation>
            <xs:documentation>
                This element uses the base element attributes as specified, where Attr1
                is a required attribute, but Attr2 and Attr3 are optional.
            </xs:documentation>
        </xs:annotation>
    </xs:element>
    <xs:element name="Element2" type="BaseElementType">
        <xs:annotation>
            <xs:documentation>
                This element uses the base element attributes but for this element I
                want Attr2 to be a required attribute.
            </xs:documentation>
        </xs:annotation>
    </xs:element>
</xs:schema>


I am wondering how to achieve what I asked for in the annotation for Element2 in the code?

Thanks in advance for any help with this!

[george]

One possibility is to define a new type that restricts the base type making that attribute required and then use that for the second element:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified">
    <xs:complexType name="BaseElementType">
        <xs:attribute name="Attr1" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
        <xs:attribute name="Attr2" type="xs:unsignedByte" use="optional"/>
        <xs:attribute name="Attr3" type="xs:unsignedShort" use="optional"/>
    </xs:complexType>
    <xs:element name="Element1" type="BaseElementType">
        <xs:annotation>
            <xs:documentation>
                This element uses the base element attributes as specified, where Attr1
                is a required attribute, but Attr2 and Attr3 are optional.
            </xs:documentation>
        </xs:annotation>
    </xs:element>
    <xs:complexType name="BaseElementType2">
        <xs:complexContent>
            <xs:restriction base="BaseElementType">
                <xs:attribute name="Attr2" type="xs:unsignedByte" use="required"/>
            </xs:restriction>
        </xs:complexContent>
    </xs:complexType>
    <xs:element name="Element2" type="BaseElementType2">
        <xs:annotation>
            <xs:documentation>
                This element uses the base element attributes but for this element I
                want Attr2 to be a required attribute.
            </xs:documentation>
        </xs:annotation>
    </xs:element>
</xs:schema>


Best Regards,
George

[gss]

George, thanks for the very quick response. What you suggested works well. Thank you!

I may ask additional questions in other areas as I hit road blocks, so I hope your tolerance for a beginning schema developer is set high!