XSLT, 2nd Edition

Creating an Element with Text

To create an element that’s actually useful, we’ll want to let it contain something. We’ll start by simply creating an element whose type is xs:string:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- content1.xsd -->
<xs:schema 
  xmlns="http://www.oreilly.com/xslt"
  targetNamespace="http://www.oreilly.com/xslt"
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <xs:element name="content1" type="xs:string"/>

</xs:schema>

Notice that we didn’t use <xs:complexType> this time. We simply said our element was a string. Here’s a valid document for this schema:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- content1.xml -->
<content1
  xmlns="http://www.oreilly.com/xslt"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.oreilly.com/xslt content1.xsd">
Our element now contains some text!  It’s getting more useful 
all the time.
</content1>