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What file extension is used to identify XSD schema documents?

What two primary attributes are used with the xsd:element element to describe an element in an XSD schema?

What simple type would you use to represent a recurring monthly bill in an XSD schema?

How do you control how many times an element may appear within an XSD schema?

XSD schema documents are stored with a file extension of .xsd.

The two primary attributes used with the xsd:element element to describe an element in an XSD schema are name and type.

Both the xsd:recurringDate and xsd:recurringDay types are sufficient to store the date of a recurring monthly bill. The xsd:recurringDate type would be better if you cared about knowing the month of the bill, whereas the xsd:recurringDay type would work fine if you were interested only in the day of the month.

The xsd:minOccurs and xsd:maxOccurs attributes allow you to control how many times an element appears within an XSD schema.

Using the pets.xml document from Tutorial 1, create a pets.xsd schema document that uses XSD to describe a virtual pet markup language.

Modify the pets.xml document so that it can be validated against the new pets.xsd schema document.