Re: Namespaces, schemas, Simon's filters.

[Francis Norton <francis@redrice.com>]

Whoops... maybe I should have done a search for "Fuchs" in the XML
Schema spec before trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs.

All I can say is that I've just finished writing two transforms: one to
fix-up a schema by disambiguating all element names, and a second which
generates an equivalent transform to fix-up incoming messages. Both were
simpler than I expected - you can go a long way by using your XSD type
as an XSLT mode...

Francis.


Francis Norton wrote:
> 
> "Fuchs, Matthew" wrote:
> >
> >>
> > But if elementFormDefault were in the instance, I wouldn't need to rewrite a
> > schema I don't have write access to.
> >
> XML Schema validation is designed round the principle that the message
> *reader* chooses the schema to validate against - that's why the spec
> has language like
> 
> "The xsi:schemaLocation and xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation attributes can
> be used in a document to provide hints as to the physical location of
> schema documents which may be used for ·assessment·."
> 
> So you are absolutely free to validate a transformed message against a
> transformed local copy of the schema - and thanks for providing such a
> good use case for a possibly counter-intuitive design feature.
> 
> Francis.
> 
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