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Given the following XML instance doc: <DO xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="DO.xsd"> <DS DSID="a"> <MIME>text/plain</MIME> </DS> <DS DSID="b"> <MIME>image/gif</MIME> </DS> <FRIP ID="f1" xmlns:FSch="http://fsch.ns" xsi:schemaLocation="http://fsch.ns FRIPQ.xsd"> <desc>this is an instance of a Q frip</desc> <FSch:roleq1 RDSID="a" /> <FSch:roleq2 RDSID="b" /> </FRIP> <FRIP ID="f2" xmlns:FSch="http://fsch.ns" xsi:schemaLocation="http://fsch.ns FRIPZ.xsd"> <desc>this is an instance of a Z frip</desc> <FSch:rolez RDSID="a" /> </FRIP> </DO> I want to validate all non-namespace qualified tags against DO.xsd, and all the FSch qualified tags against FRIPQ.xsd. Frips are extensible content that plug into a DO. The DO *SCHEMA* doesn't know about specific FRIPs. The instance doc needs to make it obvious which parts come from which specific frips: frip role tags must be namespace qualified. Specific frips are supposed to be reusable, extensible pieces for different instance docs. I can write DO.xsd so the above instance doc validates to DO.xsd (by using an "any" element in the right place in the schema). I can't figure out how to write FRIPQ.xsd so the above validates to FRIPQ.xsd. I figured that the problem was that there's no single root node for a FRIP in FRIPQ.xsd -- that XML schemas won't handle the above the way I want. So I changed my XML instance doc to the following: instance doc 2: <DO xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="DO.xsd"> <DS DSID="a"> <MIME>text/plain</MIME> </DS> <DS DSID="b"> <MIME>image/gif</MIME> </DS> <FRIP FID="f1"> <desc>this is an instance of a Q frip</desc> <FSch:root xmlns:FSch="http://fsch.ns" xsi:schemaLocation="http://fsch.ns FRIPQ.xsd"> <FSch:roleq1 RDSID="a" /> <FSch:roleq2 RDSID="b" /> </FSch:root> </FRIP> </DO> I can validate instance doc 2 against DO.xsd. If I snip out the FSch qualified XML, I can validate that against FRIPQ.xsd. But I'm still not happy: 1. Neither XML Spy nor Topologi has a way for me to validate the appropriate piece of XML instance doc 2 against FRIPQ "in situ." That is, the only way I've found to validate against FRIPQ.xsd is to snip out that piece of XML and make it a separate instance doc. 2. RDSID within a frip role tag is supposed to be an IDREF to a DSID attribute in a DS tag. But in the above model, my frip schema doesn't know about DO.xsd ... so how can they refer to XML in the DO? And I don't believe I can do this with Schematron, either, for the same reason ... I want the specific schematron rules to be included via <appinfo> in the FRIP schema, but it somehow needs to reference elements that are parents and siblings to the frip root element. Is there a way for me to do all of these: a. have DO schema that will allow extensible frips to be plugged in at the appropriate spot. b. DO schema doesn't know anything about specific frip schemas, only DO instance docs know about specific frip schemas. c. specific frip validating doc can be used to validate specific frip instance in DO instance doc. d. specific frip validating doc can validate: i. correct role elements for specific frip ii. attribute RDSID for each role is an IDREF refering to a DSID in a DS element in DO instance doc. iii. match RDSID for each role to DSID pertaining to correct MIME type specified (e.g. for Frip Q, roleq1 must match DS with MIME "text/plain") I know that d.ii and d.iii could be done with Schematron IF the schematron schema is written to pertain to the whole document. BUT it's my dream for d.ii and d.iii to be in the specific frip validating doc ... any suggestions out there? - Naomi Naomi Dushay Cornell Digital Library Research Group Department of Computer Science Cornell University 4130 Upson Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-7501 USA naomi@c... 607-255-2528 (voice)
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