locally scoped element decls and namespaces

Roger Costello costello at mitre.org
Mon Jan 3 20:42:43 GMT 2000


Let me see if I understand this correctly.  If I wish to indicate in the
instance document that everything between <Person> and </Person>
conforms to the schema in urn:person-schema/person-schema.xsd, then this
is the correct syntax:

<t:Person xmlns:t="urn:person-schema"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema/instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="urn:person-schema
                              urn:person-schema/person-schema.xsd">
    <fname>Helen</t:fname>
    <lname>Jones</t:lname>
</t:Person>

If the above is correct, then please tell me what it means when we don't
declare the namespace:

<Person xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema/instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="urn:person-schema
                              urn:person-schema/person-schema.xsd">
    <fname>Helen</t:fname>
    <lname>Jones</t:lname>
</Person>

/Roger

Andrew Layman wrote:
> 
> The first is the right interpretation of local namespaces.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabe Beged-Dov [mailto:begeddov at jfinity.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 10:11 AM
> To: XML List
> Cc: xml-schema-comments
> Subject: locally scoped element decls and namespaces
> 
> I have a hopefully simple question concerning locally
> scoped element decls and namespaces. Here is an example
> schema:
> 
> <schema targetNamespace='urn:person-schema'>
>         <type name='Person'>
>                 <element name='fname' type='string' />
>                 <element name='lname' type='string' />
>         </type>
>         <element name='Person' type='Person' />
> </schema>
> 
> Given this schema, here is an instance:
> 
> <t:Person xmlns:t='urn:person-schema'
> 
> xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema/instance'>
>         <fname>Helen</fname>
>         <lname>Jones</lname>
> </t:Person>
> 
> Is this right or should fname and lname be bound to the
> same namespace as Person, i.e.:
> 
> <t:Person xmlns:t='urn:person-schema'
> 
> xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema/instance'>
>         <t:fname>Helen</t:fname>
>         <t:lname>Jones</t:lname>
> </t:Person>
> 
> Cordially from Corvallis,
> 
> Gabe Beged-Dov
> 
> --
> ---------------------------
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