Madison320

I saw <record> in an Excel schema example. I'm assuming the element "record" was defined by Excel somehow since Excel "acts differently" when it sees the element "record". So that makes sense because it's Excel making it a reserved word, not XML. But I'm still a unclear on where you find these reserved words for any particular XML language. Thanks!

Does the XSD schema document have a universal set of reserved words? Element? xs? Record? I keep running into these words and I can't figure out if they have meaning or are they just made up by the user like a variable. Thanks!

Thanks for the quick response, unfortunately I'm still totally confused! So is this code XSL? How would I know that by looking at it? It seems like there ought to be a way to distinguish what XML-based language I'm looking at: <?xml version="1.0"?><xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><xs:element name="note"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="to" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="from" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="heading" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="body" type="xs:string"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType></xs:element></xs:schema> Also this page appears to be full of reserved words but it makes it sound like it's generic XML. http://www.w3schools.com/schema/schema_elements_ref.asp

I've been going thru the XML tutorial and the fact that I don't know which words are reserved makes it very difficult for me to understand. For example in the following code is "xs" a reserved word? Is "element" a reserved word? "complexType"? <xs:element name="note"><xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="to" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="from" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="heading" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="body" type="xs:string"/> </xs:sequence></xs:complexType></xs:element>