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"Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com> writes:
> *sigh*
>
> After confering with some of our schema folks something was brought
> up which adds a caveat to my comments.
>
> A problem arises because the normative schema for Schema (sForS)
> imports the schema for the XML namespace already. This means that a
> conformant XSD implementation acts as if the XSD for the
> "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; and
> "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"; were imported into any schema
> it validates. However, Paul is attempting to re-import that
> namespace using a different schemaLocation and XSD. According to the
> W3C XML Schema recommendation[0]
>
> "NOTE: The above is carefully worded so that multiple <import>ing of
> the same schema document will not constitute a violation of clause 2
> of Schema Properties Correct (§3.15.6), but applications are
> allowed, indeed encouraged, to avoid <import>ing the same schema
> document more than once to forestall the necessity of establishing
> identity component by component. Given that the schemaLocation
> [attribute] is only a hint, it is open to applications to ignore all
> but the first <import> for a given namespace, regardless of the
> ·actual value· of schemaLocation, but such a strategy risks missing
> useful information when new schemaLocations are offered."
>
> So this means it is possible for a conformant implementation to
> ignore a schema author's attempt to re-import the XML namespace and
> redefine its components. Currently the Microsoft .NET implementation
> does this but does not issue any warning when it does.
>
XSV does the same, i.e. it only fetches one schema document per
imported namespace, regardless of how many <import> elements it
encounters.
ht
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