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Re: targetNamespace vs default namespace

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: "REV Tamas" <tamas.rev@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:37:03 +0100

----- Original Message From: "REV Tamas"

> Hi Pete,
>
> Thank you for your reply. It made me realize that I omitted some important
> data: the schema has elementFormDefault="qualified" and
> attributeFormDefault="unqualified":
>
> <xsd:schema xmlns="ProprietaryNamespace" targetNamespace="
> AnotherProprietaryNamespace"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
> elementFormDefault="qualified"
> attributeFormDefault="unqualified"
> xmlns:abc="YetAnotherPropriateryNamespace">
> ...
>    <xsd:complexType name="complexTypeOne">
>        <xsd:sequence>
>            ...
>            <xsd:element name="SubElementWithoutPrefix"
> type="ElementTypeWithoutPrefix" /> <!-- a line with a problem -->
>        </xsd:sequence>
>    </xsd:complexType>
>    ...
> </xsd:schema>
>
> This is the schema "as is" the customer gave us. This schema belongs to 
> the
> interface definition of a webservice.
> One of our tasks is to validate the messages sent to this interface. The
> customer gave us test messages too.
>
> ...
>
>
> The corresponding part looks like that:
> <Soapenv:Envelope 
> xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
> xmlns:ns1="AnotherProprietaryNamespace"> <!-- ns1 matches the
> targetNamespace of the schema -->
>    ...
>    <ns1:ComplexEelement>
>        ...
>        <ns1:SubElementWithoutPrefix>trallala</ns1:SubElementWithoutPrefix>
>        ...
>    </ns1:ComplexElement>
>
> If I understand it well, this message excrept conforms to the schema
> excrept, because elementFormDefault="qualified" means that the elements
> conforming to this schema must be qualified with the schemas 
> targetNamspace.

Hi Tama,

This looks right to me.

HTH,

Pete Cordell
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  • targetNamespace vs default namespace
    • From: REV Tamas <tamas.rev@gmail.com>
  • Re: targetNamespace vs default namespace
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>