Re: XML Schema built-in data type namespace URI.

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

KAZUMI Saito <ksaito@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:

> The built-in datatypes defined by XML Schema part2 has namespace URI
> (see 3.1 Namespace considerations in XML Schema part2): 
> 
>    * http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-datatypes

This is a convenience namespace URI for a namespace which contains
_only_  the names of the builtin datatypes.  It is not for general
schema usage.

> To declear the element which has the built-in datatype, which is correct?
> 
> 
> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema">
>   <xsd:element name="comment" type="xsd:string"/>
>   ...

This is the correct form.

ht
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