RE: [xml-dev] XSD <any> and namespaces

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

Prefixed names where the prefixes are not bound to a namespace are not
namespace valid. Undeclared namespace prefixes are namespace invalid.
This is covered in the Namespaces in XML recommendation at 

	http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#nsc-NSDeclared

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Prager [mailto:danielp@deakin.edu.au] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:58 PM
> To: xml-dev
> Subject: [xml-dev] XSD <any> and namespaces
> 
> 
> I wish to allow absolutely any element in any namespace
> in certain parts of an XML document.
> 
> If in XML Schema I write:
> 
>       <xsd:element name="value">
>               <xsd:complexType>
>                       <xsd:sequence>
>                               <xsd:any processContents="skip"/>
>                       </xsd:sequence>
>               </xsd:complexType>
>       </xsd:element>
> 
> MSV will accept:
> 
>       <value>
>               <hmmm old="stuff">
>                       Can go in here!
>               </hmmm>
>       </value>
> 
> in the XML doc,  but not
> 
>       <value>
>               <ns:hmmm old="stuff">
>                       Can go in here!
>               </ns:hmmm>
>       </value>
> 
> where ns is an undeclared namespace prefix.
> 
> Is this an MSV issue or correct behaviour?
> 
> Is there a way to permit the use of undeclared namespaces?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Daniel
> 
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