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                                Simple type definitions define a simple datatype and specify the constraints
                                and information about the values of attributes or text-only elements.</p><p>The &lt;simpleType&gt; element contains attributes, which are described by
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Simple_Type_Definitions">
                                XML Schema Part 1: Structures</a> of the standard.</p><p>Simple type definitions come in three varieties:
                                <ul><li>
                                                                <a href="os-schema2-3-4.html">Atomic data types</a>
                                                        </li><li>
                                                                <a href="os-schema2-3-7.html">List data types</a>
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                                                                <a href="os-schema2-3-10.html">Union data types</a>
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                                The XML Schema model java interface for a &lt;simpleType&gt; is
org.eclipse.xsd.XSDSimpleTypeDefinition and
                                can be created by calling
org.eclipse.xsd.XSDFactory.eINSTANCE.createXSDSimpleTypeDefinition().                           
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