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Hi, It would make sense to link an XML document or XML fragment to its schema with the name space reference. For instance, if I would have the following document: <mycheck xmlns="http://www.mydomain.com/MyCheckShema.xml"> .... My check content.... <theinvoice xmlns="http://www.domain.com/theinvoice.xml"> ...the invoice content.... <theinvoice> ... other content .... </mycheck> Then the xmlns attribute URI value would be useful to something other than feeding XML-dev discussions. Benefits: --------- Each fragment can be validated with its schema. Each fragment is part of a namespace and the name space vocabulary is defined by a schema. Contrary with what we got in the SGML world, a document can be freely aggregated from fragments and still be validated by a validating parser. The aggregate does not have to centralize the knowledge about the document structure. Major benefit: re-use and modularity. But maybe this is already a work in progress within W3C? If this is the case, little Rascals, why do you let us sing "if I where a rich man..." by hiding this secret :-)) Otherwise, may I take the liberty to make this suggestion (I am modest enough to be sure that you already got this suggestion from other people too). Cheers Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@n... http://www.netfolder.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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