RE: [xml-dev] Valid reference to external namespace?

["Ezell, Joel M \(Joel\)" <joele@avaya.com>]

Thanks for your responses!  I have a more detailed understanding of the problem now, and a follow up question.  First off, please note that I now have a prefix definition for acx in the snippet from the register-device schema below.

 

Now, it turns out that I have an include dependencies as follows:

csta namespace:

csta-schemas.xsd includes device-identifiers.xsd

(and many more…)

 

acx namespace:

avaya-csta.xsd includes csta-schemas.xsd

avaya-csta.xsd includes register-device.xsd

(and many more…)

 

device-identifiers.xsd has the definition of the csta:DeviceID type, so you can see that this is how the register-device schema is aware of this type: register-device.xsd is included by the main schema (avaya-csta.xsd), which had previously included device-identifiers.xsd by way of csta-schemas.xsd.

 

Now, the problem is that the XML that castor produces for the RegisterDevice request doesn’t have any indication on the device element that indicates that it belongs to the csta namespace.  Is this a bug in castor or should we be doing something different in the schema to enable it to properly tag the device element in the generated xml?

 

Thanks again,

Joel

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 3:45 PM
To: Ezell, Joel M (Joel); xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Valid reference to external namespace?

 

You have the correct approach in general - you will need to include (or import, depending on whether the target namespace of the external schema is the same as the "main" schema) the schema that contains the RegisterDevice type. Given the information below, it's impossible to tell if it's correct as the reader cannot tell whether or not the RegisterDevice type is in one of the 2 schemas you've included.

 

You also need to include the target namespace for each included schema - it's missing.

 

There is also no prefix definition for "acx:" in the schema below, but there should be one.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Kind Regards,

Joseph Chiusano

Booz Allen Hamilton

Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World

 

 

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From: Ezell, Joel M (Joel) [mailto:joele@avaya.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:16 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Valid reference to external namespace?

Hello,

 

Below, I have an example of an XSD file that is referencing a type defined in another schema, but I’m not positive that it’s doing it correctly.  Note that the CSTA namespace is defined as “csta”, and in the RegisterDevice type, I reference a type from that namespace: type=”csta:DeviceID”.  There is no explicit “include” statement.  Is this a legitimate way to reference that type?  Castor seems to think so, but I wanted to verify it anyway…

 

Thanks!

Joel Ezell

Avaya Inc.

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsd:schema targetNamespace="http://www.avaya.com/csta"

  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

  xmlns:csta=http://www.ecma.ch/standards/ecma-323/csta/ed2

  xmlns:acx="http://www.avaya.com/csta"

  elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="qualified">

 

  <xsd:include schemaLocation="ip-address.xsd"/>

  <xsd:include schemaLocation="login-info.xsd"/>

 

  <!-- RegisterDevice -->

  <xsd:element name="RegisterDevice">

    <xsd:complexType>

      <xsd:sequence>

        <xsd:element name="device"      type="csta:DeviceID"/>

        <xsd:element name="loginInfo"   type="acx:LoginInfo" minOccurs="0"/>

        <xsd:element name="localMediaInfo"   type="acx:MediaInfo" minOccurs="0"/>

        <xsd:element ref="csta:extensions" minOccurs="0"/>

      </xsd:sequence>

    </xsd:complexType>

  </xsd:element>