Re: [xml-dev] How to match targetNamespace URIs in XML Schemas to namespace declarations in XML instances when the targetNamespace attribute contains characters that are illegal in URIs?

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Bjoern Hoehrmann <>
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Geoff Shuetrim <>
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2011-11-03T05:08:43Z
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Re: [xml-dev] How to match targetNamespace URIs in XML Schemas to namespace declarations in XML instances when the targetNamespace attribute contains characters that are illegal in URIs?
* 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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