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> Liam> xs:import does not "import a namespace" - it imports a schema > that defines a vocabulary of elements and/or attributes > associated with that namespace URI. No, I don't think that reflects the current consensus of the WG, which is expressed in the Note in XSD 1.1, section 4.2.6: <quote> Some users of version 1.0 of this specification have mistakenly assumed that the primary purpose of the <import> is to cause retrieval of a resource identified by the schemaLocation attribute. Although the function of <import> is unchanged in this version, the presentation below has been reorganized to clarify the two separate purposes served by <import>, namely (1) to license references, within a schema document, to components in the imported namespace, and (2) to provide information about the location of schema documents for imported namespaces. </quote> So "importing a namespace" (or licensing references to components in a given namespace) is now seen as a primary role of xs:import. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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