XSD Problem with Type Attribute : The type attribute cannot be present with either simpleType or complexType

Question

I've looked all over stackoverflow for an answer for this, but unfortunately all the ansers didn't work for me:

I have the following xml:

<STGDocument version="3" workitem-id="0" index="1">
       <ID type="String">ab78e02c-a472-45b9-99d0-57c19034a51b</ID>
....

And the XSD generated from a webpage :

<xs:element name="STGDocument">
<xs:complexType>
  <xs:sequence>
    <xs:element name="ID" type="xs:string">
      <xs:complexType>
        <xs:attribute name="type" type="xs:string"></xs:attribute>
      </xs:complexType>
    </xs:element>
.......

Somehow the <xs:element name "Id" ....> Tag throws an error "The type attribute cannot be present with either simpleType or complexType"

How can i fix this?

As mentioned before, I tried all the solutions on SOF but none of them worked for me...

Thnaks

I now removed the type attribute in and now it complains because the ID element in the XML contains string — Adrian Melzer, Oct 11 '18 at 12:32
Now it complains : The element cannot contain text. Content model is empty.' — Adrian Melzer, Oct 11 '18 at 12:39

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '18 at 16:18

The type of an element is declared EITHER using a type attribute (like type="xs:string") OR using a nested xs:simpleType or xs:complexType element. You can't have both, which is why it is complaining.

The actual type of your ID element is a "complex type with simple content", and should be declared as in this example: XSD : How to use both value and attribute

XSD Problem with Type Attribute : The type attribute cannot be present with either simpleType or complexType

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