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Chapter 5. Creating XML Schemas > Creating Empty Elements
Creating Empty Elements
Empty elements have no content, but they can have attributes—so how do you declare them in XML schema? You do that by declaring a complex type and setting the <xsd:complexType> element's content attribute to "empty".
Here's an example. In this case, I'm going to create a new empty element named <image> that can take three attributes: source, width, and height, like this: <image source="/images/cover.gif" height="256" width=512″ />. I start by declaring this element:
