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Re: Documenting XML Dialects With Instance Documents

• To: Doug Ransom <Doug.Ransom@p...>
• Subject: Re: Documenting XML Dialects With Instance Documents
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:04:01 -0500
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• Organization: BAH
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Doug,

One way is to use namespace prefixes in the XML instance document - this
helps identify in which schemas elements/attributes are
declared/defined, and it is particularly useful when you are dealing
with multiple schemas and need to trace the "origin" of
elements/attributes.

Format at top of XML instance document would be (this shows only one
schema):

<abc:ThisIsTheRootElement
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.TargetNamespaceURL.com 
					            SchemaFile.xsd"
    xmlns:abc="http://www.TargetNamespaceURL.com>

Hope that helps,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton

Doug Ransom wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of useful tools or techniques to annotate an instance document WRT its Schemas (typically both an XML Schema and Schematron in our case)?  I think people like to look at the instance document and see the relevant bits of the schemas than the other way around, perhaps in a frame beside the instance document.
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