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10.7. The list Element

A simple type can specify a space-delimited list consisting of values specified by other global or local simple types. An instance of a list declared in the context of a simple type has all the values contained within a single element:

<listElement>value1 value2 value3</listElement> 

Tip

The list element does not support the notion of a list comprised of repeating elements:

<element>value1</element> 
<element>value2</element> 
<element>value3</element> 

Both the element element (covered in Chapter 8) and the complexType element (covered in Chapter 11) support repeating elements.

Listing 10.5 shows the XML representation of partNumberListType, which contains a list of partNumberType. Listing 10.2 portrays the partNumberType ...