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Re: Escher could have drawn it (Re: XML Schema and Entities)

• From: Francis Norton <francis@r...>
• To: Mark Feblowitz <mfeblowitz@f...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:20:30 +0100

Can you handle the case of multiple targetNamespaces in your
consolidated Schema Defnition file?

Francis.

Mark Feblowitz wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes -
> 
> You can consolidate an entire vocabulary of different doc types into a
> single Schema Definition file. Very convenient for distribution of related
> schema definitions. The down-sides have already been mentioned.
> 
> Now, will we ever get to (or need to get to) a point where we can have an
> instance file with multiple roots?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
> To: vdv@d...; xml-dev@l...
> Sent: 6/21/01 9:45 AM
> Subject: RE: Escher could have drawn it (Re: XML Schema and Entities)
> 
> That would say under XML Schema, a document can
> be rootless in the classical sense.  It is more
> like VRML, which having been designed from the
> beginning to be object-oriented, has no document
> root, simply a comment that must be included
> at the head of the file.  XML Schema in that
> sense has been oriented toward object design.
> 
> Is this the case, that by having multiple
> global elements, we can design a schema
> with multiple document roots, or perhaps
> simply, multiple trees?
> 
> Len
> http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...]
> 
> > In such a case, you
> > could deduce that <a> is the root element, even if it is not
> explicitly
> > marked as such. However, it may be the case that other elements, <x>,
> > <y> and <z> could also be defined with the same content model as <a>,
> > and therefore there are 4 possible root elements for a schema valid
> > document. Is this the case?
> 
> Yes, all you have to do is to define these 4 elements as global.
> 
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