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• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 09:13:12 +0000

> 
> Theoretically, although I have never seen it with XSD and would
> probably think it was a weird use of the language, you could have
> multiple schemas for validating documents in the same namespace.

I have seen one client who was attempting to do this: essentially applying stricter validation to "finished" documents than to "work in progress". It proved quite difficult to manage the maintenance of different versions of the same schema; I think this is something that would benefit from better support in languages and tools.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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