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Using xsi:schemaLocation in XHTML 1.1

From: Houghton,Andrew <houghtoa@oclc.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:51:13 -0400
Message-ID: <1E41AE9AC12EA549BE5BC51A08DD8DC1042EF1A3@OAEXCH5SERVER.oa.oclc.org>
To: <www-validator@w3.org> 

I have the following XHTML 1.1

<!DOCTYPE html
  PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"
>

<html xml:lang="en"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SCHEMA/xhtml11.xsd"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>

  <!-- … -->

</html>

The validator complains with the message: Line ?, Column ??: there is no attribute "xsi:schemaLocation".

When I look at the XHTML 1.1 specification, section 2.1.1, item 4, it says that you may include an xsi:schemaLocation.

BTW, the example in the XHTML 1.1 specification, section 2.1.1 appears to be incorrect, since the xsi:schemaLocation is missing the namespace for XHTML and only gives the location of the schema definition.

It seems to me that the validator should not be issuing a message on the above XHTML 1.1, but I might be overlooking something in the specification and would welcome some advice.

Thanks, Andy.
Received on Thursday, 20 September 2007 19:51:32 GMT

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