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Re: Namespaces, Architectural Forms & XML Schemas

• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: Peter Jones <peterj@w...>
• Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:07:23 +0000

Peter Jones <peterj@w...> writes:

> Can I just ask because I haven't studied this in detail yet, wrt XML
> Schemas, whether it is possible to have a single element/attribute type
> represent itself as being within multiple namespaces simultaneously in one
> conforming document instance [...]?

No.  Your choices are to declare an element or attribute in a
specified namespace (the 'target namespace' of the schema document
containing the declaration), or to declare it in no namespace.

The latter option does allow you to 'repurpose' the declaration by
including it in various schema documents for various specified
namespaces, but it is never in more than one namespace at a time.

ht
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