I've tried adding a simpleType to the XSD, but when I validate it using the W3C's online -- http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv -- XSV program I get errors...I was told to add a simpleType for a comments section, I've tried the following by adding onto the XSD you wrote here:

Can you -- or someone -- please give me an example XML document based on the schema you posted here...so I can reference it to something. Thanks, Michael Lauzon, Founder The Quill Society http://www.quillsociety.org/ mlauzon@quillsociety.org

I have the following schema, which I believe needs to be fleshed out more to make it more powerful, can someone please help and also point me in the right direction...hopefully once my project gets approved on SourceForge I will be adding this as well as something else I have to the project. Anyeverhow, here is the schema as it stands right now: If you can make any changes to it, please do...any and all help would be very much appreciated. Someone said the following to me as well, although I am having problems understanding what he is implying, probably because he didn't include an example: "In your case, it depends on where you're going with this, but I'd consider creating a ComplexType for a "person" and then define your "Student" as an extension of the Person type, adding perhaps the student ID. That way, if you added Instructor, you'd be able to re-use the generalized part of the definition of a person (since Instructors and Students both have some things in common)." If I can get this up and running, I will eventually need to be able to easily change some things in it to get it working with a second project that I have on SourceForge. Michael Lauzon, Founder The Quill Society http://www.quillsociety.org/ mlauzon@quillsociety.org

I heard that it's easier to learn the XML Schemas than it is for the XML DTD, how true is this? Also, does anyone know ehere to find a very detailed tutorial for XS but speaks to the beginner? Thanks, Michael Lauzon, Founder The Quill Society http://www.quillsociety.org/ mlauzon@quillsociety.org