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On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 20:38:42 +0530, Mukul Gandhi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 5:00 PM Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> > wrote: > >> Today, by accident, I omitted the value of schemaLocation in an >> xs:include, i.e., >> >> <xs:include schemaLocation="" /> [snip] >> Is there a use case for doing so? >> > > I don't think that, there is any legitimate use case for such a statement. > > I'd be happy to be corrected with right concepts, of course. I believe that it's technically legal because circular includes are legal. That is, in the common(-er) case, schema A includes schema B includes schema C includes schema A. Import one, and you get them all, a technique to insure completeness (circular include-s can also be more or less accidental, because (for instance) you've developed a large set of schemas that has several 'profiles,' each starting with a different schema document, and there's a collection of things that each of them pull in). They commonly occur as schema collections grow over time. The specification says that the parser has to recognize the occurrence of the cycle, and ignore the circularity. I've always considered schema A includes schema B includes schema A as the tightest cycle, but this is simply the degenerate case. It's allowed because it's pointless to forbid it; the schema parser has already been told "when circularity is detected, parse each included document only once". Amy! -- Amelia A. Lewis amyzing {at} talsever.com There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and BSD Unix. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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