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Re: How to match targetNamespace URIs in XML Schemas to namesp

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• To: Geoff Shuetrim <geoff@galexy.net>
• Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:08:43 +0100

* Geoff Shuetrim wrote:
>I have come across an XML Schema document with a targetNamespace attribute
>that contains, among other characters, a backslash character, for example "
>http://example.com/target\namespace".
>
>I am trying to determine what the namespace declaration, for elements
>defined in that schema, should be when those elements are used in an XML
>instance document.  Specifically, should I expect:
>
>1. xmlns="http://example.com/target\namespace" or should I expect
>2. xmlns="http://example.com/target%5Cnamespace"

I don't see a definition of the value space for anyURI in XML Schema 1.0
but in XML Schema 1.1 it seems to be proposed that the mapping between
lexical and value space is the identity mapping, so you would never con-
vert the backslash.
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• References:
  • How to match targetNamespace URIs in XML Schemas to namespacedeclarations in XML instances when the targetNamespace attribute containscharacters that are illegal in URIs?
    • From: Geoff Shuetrim <geoff@galexy.net>