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Thanks again for the coherent responses, Liam. Especially at 4 am. I hope you got a few hours of sleep before reading this! > No. In this case they should look at the confluence.xsd part. For > example, if your XML document was hosted at > http://www.example.org/docs/argyle.xml, then the XML Catalog would be > consulted for http://www.example.org/docs/confluence.xsd. > See http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-xmlschema11-1-20120405/#schema-loc Ah, "4.3.2 How schema definitions are located on the Web" ("non-Web mechanisms for delivering schemas for ·assessment· exist, but are outside the scope of this specification"). Sorry, I fear I should have been clearer, earlier: I am using desktop XML editors (such as jEdit and XMLSpy) to work with files that are located either on my PC's local (C:) drive or on LAN drives (or that I create from scratch in the editor). None of the files involved are located on the Web. From the "XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition" ( www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#SchemaInMultDocs): > As schemas become larger, it is often desirable to divide their content among several schema documents [...] Instance documents that conform to schema whose definitions span multiple schema documents need only reference the 'topmost' document Also, the Primer refers to "the location of schema documents": that is, it refers to schema documents as being persistent objects - with locations - as opposed to, say, in-memory objects that might be programmatically generated from one or more such persistent objects. I'm comfortable with the concept that the content of a schema can be divided among several schema documents; this describes the Confluence XML schema that I've developed. From your email: > Second, a Schema Document can be comprised of multiple xsd files. > Neither I nor the XSD spec uses Schema Document to mean a single xsd file. In the light of your email, I think my problem might be that I've been misreading the various W3C documents, and that I've been incorrectly thinking: one schema document = one .xsd file = one <schema> element. I think you're saying the term "schema document" actually means (please feel free to correct me): an .xsd file, *and* any other .xsd files to which it refers (via, for example, <import> and <include>). Or are you saying that a "schema document" is not just those .xsd files, but a single object that is generated (in memory, by an XML processor) from all of those files? (In which case, how can the primer refer to the persistent "location" of a schema document?) Finally (cringe, sorry), I'm still not clear on the following issue: in a single .xsd file (that does not refer to any other .xsd files, via <include>, <import>, or any other means), can I define some elements that are associated with one namespace, and other elements that are associated with another namespace? I think the answer is "no". Graham Hannington Perth, Western Australia Fundi Software Pty Ltd 2012 ABN 89 009 120 290 This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com
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