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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: XML Schemas: Best Practices
 On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Roger L. Costello wrote: [introduction to elementFormDefault="unqualified" snipped] > Here's an example of a conforming instance document: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <my:camera xmlns:my="http://www.camera.org" > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" > xsi:schemaLocation= "http://www.camera.org Camera.xsd"> > <body>Ergonomically designed casing for easy handling</body> > <lens>300mm zoom, 1.2 f-stop</lens> > <manual_adaptor>1/10,000 sec to 100 sec</manual_adaptor> > <my:camera> Isn't there a problem here? A document author may well see a document like the above and try and rewrite it using a default namespace, thus: <?xml version="1.0"?> <camera xmlns="http://www.camera.org"> <body>Stuff</body> <lens>More stuff</lens> <manual_adaptor>Even more stuff</manual_adaptor> </camera> Except (assuming I understand this correctly, which is far from guaranteed) that won't validate, because body, lens and manual_adaptor are now qualified and in the wrong namespace. I'd suggest this is far from intuitive for a document author, unless he/she knows how the schema works, and the whole idea is that the author should be insulated from the complexities of the schema. Does that make sense? -- Richard Lanyon (Software Engineer) | "The medium is the message" XML Script development, | - Marshall McLuhan DecisionSoft Ltd. | 
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