Re: [xml-dev] what is the meaning of elementFormDefault="qualified" in a

["bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com>]

thanks, I keep falling afoul of this, I guess I've spent too long with
Venetian blind and Salami slice schemas to consider any other design
pattern.

I swear I had the same problem looking at some schemas about this same
time last year, and then totally blocked the solution out of my mind.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On 5/3/07, George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com> wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
>
> The target namespace for that schema is absent. If you include the
> schema from another one that has a target namespace then the components
> from that schema will have that target namespace (I believe this is
> called chameleon schema).
> See an example below:
>
> test.xsd
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
> targetNamespace="http://example.com";>
>      <xs:include schemaLocation="common.xsd"/>
> </xs:schema>
>
> common.xsd
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
> elementFormDefault="qualified">
>      <xs:element name="test">
>          <xs:complexType>
>              <xs:sequence>
>                  <xs:element name="a"/>
>                  <xs:element name="b"/>
>              </xs:sequence>
>          </xs:complexType>
>      </xs:element>
> </xs:schema>
>
> The following instance is valid against test.xsd
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <test xmlns="http://example.com";
>      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>      xsi:schemaLocation="http://example.com test.xsd">
>      <a></a>
>      <b></b>
> </test>
>
> Best Regards,
> George
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
>
> bryan rasmussen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > As per the subject line.
> >
> > I am looking over a rather big application with some XML schemas in
> > which elementFormDefault is always given as qualified but there is no
> > targetNamespace. This strikes me as weird because the implication is
> > that one would have instances like this
> >
> > <t:test xmlns:t="" xsi:schemaLocation="myschema.xsd"
> > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
> >
> > which by my understanding would be very illegal.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bryan Rasmussen
> >
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