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Hi Folks, I have three related questions (below). Any thoughts that you might have on any of these questions would be appreciated. /Roger ------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 1. Suppose that I have a collection of XML Schemas and the schemas are related. Example (auto industry). Suppose that I have an XML Schema for each type of auto: truck.xsd - schema for trucks suv.xsd - schema for sports utility vehicles minivan.xsd - schema for minivans sedan.xsd - schema for sedans coupe.xsd - schema for coupes etc. What namespace do I use for the schemas: (1) A single, umbrella, namespace for the entire collection? Thus, each of the above auto schemas would have the same targetNamespace. or, (2) A different namespace for each schema? Thus, each of the above auto schemas would have a different targetNamespace. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 2. If I were to use the single, umbrella, namespace then when I create, say, coupe.xsd would I need to examine all the other schemas to ensure that I don't declare an element with the same name? Stated another way, is the scope of an element declaration confined to the schema document, or, to the namespace (which in my example spans multiple schema documents)? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 3. Consider a respository of namespaces (and the elements associated with the namespaces). For managing things it might be easier to have one namespace for the collection than separate namespaces. Any thoughts on this? *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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