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<!-- Schema to declare an abstract data element for use in substitution   -->

<!-- groups so that arbitrary lists of elements so derived can be used to -->

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<!--   version 0.5 2007-02-14 Renato De Giovanni, John Wieczorek          -->

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<xs:schema

	targetNamespace="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwelement"

	xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

	elementFormDefault="qualified" version="0.5">

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	<xs:element name="dwElement" abstract="true"/>

	  <xs:annotation>

	    <xs:documentation source="http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/DarwinCore/DarwinElement" xml:lang="en"/>

	  </xs:annotation>

</xs:schema>