m batsis [mailto:mbatsis@[...].gr] wrote:
>  
>  I remember this was confusing for me in my first attempts with 
>  W3C XML Schema. My initial impression was that such a spec would 
>  allow me to define all my types us global components, while giving 
>  me the ability to explicitly choose which ones can possibly play 
>  the role of the documentElement...

You could deal with this by factoring your schema so that each document
element is in a file of its own that imports the global types.

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