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Hi Folks, It was my understanding that it is legal to create an instance document in which a portion of it is validated against a schema while another portion is not validated. For example, suppose that I would like to create an instance document for a Library (Library.xml). Upon investigation I discover that someone has created a schema for BookCatalogue (BookCatalogue.xsd). Thus, in creating Library.xml I would like to take advantage of having a schema validator check the BookCatalogue portion of my instance document. Here's what my Library instance document looks like: <?xml version="1.0"?> <Library xmlns:b="http://www.publishing.org/namespaces/BookCatalogue" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation= "http://www.publishing.org/namespaces/BookCatalogue BookCatalogue.xsd> <b:BookCatalogue> <b:Book> <b:Title>My Life and Times</b:Title> <b:Author>Paul McCartney</b:Author> <b:Date>1998</b:Date> <b:ISBN>94303-12021-43892</b:ISBN> <b:Publisher>McMillin Publishing</b:Publisher> </b:Book> ... </b:BookCatalogue> ... (other portion of Library) </Library> Thus, as you can see I have embedded within the Library instance document a BookCatalogue. My desire is that a schema validator will validate the BookCatalogue portion and leave the other portion alone. (Note that there is no schema for Library, just for the BookCatalogue portion.) Is this legal? /Roger
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