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The simpleContent Element

Definition and Usage

The simpleContent element contains extensions or restrictions on a text-only complex type or on a simple type as content and contains no elements.

Element Information

• Parent elements: complexType

Syntax

<simpleContent
id=ID
any attributes
>

(annotation?,(restriction|extension))

</simpleContent>

(The ? sign declares that the element can occur zero or one time inside the simpleContent element)

Example 1

Here is an example of an XML element (<shoesize>) that contains text-only:

<shoesize country="france">35</shoesize>

The following example declares a complexType, "shoesize", with its content defined as a integer data type and with a country attribute:

<xsd:element name="shoesize">
  <xsd:complexType>
    <xsd:simpleContent>
      <xsd:extension base="xsd:integer">
        <xsd:attribute name="country" type="xsd:string" />
      </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:simpleContent>
  </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

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