RE: what is the relationship between a XML-Schema file and itsnamespace

["David E. Cleary" <davec@progress.com>]

XML Schema does not advocate dereferencing a namespace URI to retrieve the
schema. You may want to, but you probably shouldn't. There are different
methods for locating a schema for an instance. The most straight forward is
adding an xsi:schemaLocation attribute in you instance. This attribute takes
pairs of namespace URI and schema URL. Section 4 of Schema Part 1 actually
does a pretty good job explaining all of this.

Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Preetham [mailto:preetham@robosoftin.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 7:21 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: what is the relationship between a XML-Schema file and its
> namespace
>
>
> I want to know wheather the namespace name we give to a schema can be any
> random string or it must be its full path name ?
> Does a validater searches for the schema file in the current
> directory or it
> uses the namespace to search the file containing the schema ?
> What happens if the file is on some remote computer on the net ?
>
> I am a beginner.
>
> Would anybody please answer me ?
>
>
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