[Xins-users] Shared compound types

[Michael v. R. <mi...@ba...>]

Hello.  I've just started evaluating XINS and I'm trying to find our 
whether it's possible to have shared compound / structured types.  It 
does appear that one can define such types in the <data> section, but 
can they be referenced from elsewhere without being re-defined?  For 
example,  say we have a type called EmailAddress:

<data>
  <contains>
    <contained element="EmailAddress" />
  </contains>
  <element name="EmailAddress">
    <description>An email address and name</description>
    <attribute name="address" required="false" true="_text">
      <description>The email address, for example so...@so....</description>
    </attribute>
    <attribute name="name" required="type" type="_text">
      <description>The person's name, for example A N Other.</description>
    </attribute>
  </element>
</data>


I would like to be able to re-use this type without re-defining it in 
<input> and <output> sections, for example to update or return an 
customer's email address, or add, remove, or return recipients on a 
message being built. 

Is this possible?  It's not clear to me from the user guide documents or 
demos, but I may be missing something.

Thanks,
Michael.