Hi Eve,
I don't mean to suggest that there are *no* global elements. But an approach I
find useful (and have used for the past 2 years when generating XSD from UML)
is to declare a global element for complexType, if that complexType has
complexContent (i.e. an ABIE).
The global element declaration is *always* in the same schema and same target
namespace as its complexType. This leads to a very predictable pattern and
easily automatable mapping to/from UML (or other modeling environments,
including spreadsheets). The global element name should always be derived from
the type name, e.g. "BuyerParty" is the global element for a complexType
"BuyerPartyType". Any other element names, especially those based on
simpleTypes, are local elements declarations.
Dave
