Round 2: How an XML instance document references an XML Schema

[Henry S. Thompson]

David Carlisle <davidc at nag.co.uk> writes:

> maybe this is a stupid question, but _why_ does
>  schemaLocation
> take two URI ?
> 
> What is the point of the first one giving a namespace? It seems to be
> one source of the complication, and currently I don't see how
> it can be used.

A single document may contain names from more than one namespace. So
although basically you're right, the pairing is primarily to provide a
minimal sanity-check that you're getting the schema you think you are,
this becomes more useful when you have several namespaces in your
document.

ht
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