Re: newbie question: on attributes, facets, retrieving schema components

I strongly encourage you to work through the early sections of the
Primer [1].

Facets are _only_ an aspect of the underlying component model for
simple types == datatypes.  Attribute declarations are not related to
facets.

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/
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