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I would have said there were two approaches: (a) continue to work without namespaces. You haven't actually said why you want to introduce a namespace, and you can use XML Schema without one. (b) introduce a couple of simple XSLT stylesheets to do the conversion from the non-namespace form to the namespace form and perhaps vice versa. Run the transformation on the input before you apply schema validation. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Steidl (IPTC) [mailto:mdirector@i...] > Sent: 05 June 2007 15:50 > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Transition from DTD to XML Schema specification > > Hello Group: > > More than 5 years ago my organisation, the IPTC > (www.iptc.org), has created first XML document specifications > based on DTDs for the purpose of > > exchanging news in a B2B environment. Now we want move the > document definitions to XML Schemas (to be precise: the "new" > XML Schema replicates > > the "old" DTD), and this drives us into a bad situation: > > - for the XML Schema we define a default namespace. > > - adopters of our document specification set up an XML > database and load the XML Schema for structure validation. > > - then they receive XML documents which are still based on > the DTD and hence without a namespace. > > - the XML DB rejects these XML instances as invalid - and > actually this is > > right. > > What are best practices for such a sliding transition from > DTD to XML Schema validated documents and are there > workarounds to allow the import of both non-namespaced and > namespaced XML instances. Our document specifications are > used worldwide and there is no way of defining a "day X" from > that on DTD based instances are abondoned and only XML Schema > based instances are allowed. > > Thanks > > Michael > ================================================== > Sent by: > Michael Steidl > Managing Director of the IPTC <mdirector@i...> > International Press Telecommunications Council "Information > Technology for News" > Visit us on the web at http://www.iptc.org > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by > OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To > minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... List archive: > http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php >
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