At 2015-05-05 14:15 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:
>Is it legal to do this?
> <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
> ...
> </schema>
Yes.
>I'm dealing with some schemas that don't use a namspace prefix for the
>schema namespace, ie. they are defined like this:
> <schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd"
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
>
>Ie. they have set xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" (and
>xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd" as well, though the
>"xsd:" prefix isn't used anywhere I could see).
Not a problem.
>XML Validator Buddy[1] didn't complain about this, but eclipse WTP[2]
>(WTP 3.6.3 on Luna SR2) on
> <import namespace="http://www.myorg.no/xmlstds"
> schemaLocation="../common/myorg.xsd"/>
>gives the following error message
> schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document
> '../common/myorg.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2)
> the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document
> is not
> <xsd:schema>. ER-M30-2014-12-01.xsd /MYProject/Myfolder line
> 13 XML Schema Problem
That sounds like a bug as if they were expecting prefix-based properties.
>The XSLT-based XSD to RNG converter[3] says:
> error on line 11 at column 37: xml namespace URI cannot be the
> default namespace
I understand the wording of that message to be talking about the
namespace used for xml:space= and xml:lang=, not the namespace for
XSD. One isn't allowed to declare the namespace for the "xml:" prefix.
>Who are right? Is it possible to tickle the schemas so that WTP and/or
>the XSLT converter will accept them?
"Tickle"? No ... wholesale edit removing the use of the default
namespace in order to accommodate a buggy validator.
>Is the problem that both the outer schema and the imported schema
>uses "xmlns="?
It is difficult to understand the "bug emulation mode" of a
non-conformant processor.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . Ken
>Thanks!
>
>
>- Steinar
>
>[1] http://www.xml-buddy.com/ValidatorBuddy.htm
>[2] http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/phoenix/webtools/
>[3] http://debeissat.nicolas.free.fr/XSDtoRNG.php
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