Re: Can multiple inline schemas have same targetNamespace?

FYI, Michael Sperberg-McQueen also wrote to the XML Schema IG about this
issue on their members-only list:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2004Oct/0001.html



On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:50, Pete Hendry wrote:
> Rather than say you cannot be clear about it why not make a clear statement:
> 
>     It is not permitted and if it is present then it is an error.
> 
> Nothing ambiguous there and it clears up the issue. It is a lot easier 
> for an implementation to detect this and error than it is to try to work 
> around it merging schemas and such. Is there a purpose in allowing it?
> 
> Pete
> 
> David Booth wrote:
> 
> >This is an interesting question, and I think it needs to be clarified in
> >our spec, in case others also run into this issue.  I've just written to
> >the XML Schema group for clarification from an XML Schema point of view:
> >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2004OctDec/0001.html
> >
> >Perhaps we should suggest that WSDL authors avoid doing this, in order
> >to avoid the issue, if we cannot be clear about whether or not it is
> >permitted and what it means.
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 11:24, Glen Daniels wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Jeehong:
> >>
> >>As long as there is no overlap between the component definitions in
> >>multiple schema containers for the same namespace, I think this should
> >>work just fine.  If there is overlap, we simply need to follow what the
> >>schema spec says about how to resolve repeated components in a schema
> >>(I'm not sure, though, if that's fault, first-one-wins, or
> >>last-one-wins...).
> >>
> >>--Glen 
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org 
> >>>[mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jeehong Min
> >>>Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 12:48 PM
> >>>To: www-ws-desc@w3.org
> >>>Subject: Can multiple inline schemas have same targetNamespace?
> >>>
> >>>I would appreciate it if you could address the following 
> >>>issue that I have seen in WSDLs of 2 customers in the past month.
> >>> 
> >>>One vendor's SOAP stack is creating WSDLs with multiple 
> >>>inline schemas that have the same namespace.
> >>> 
> >>>Here's an example:
> >>><wsdl:definition>
> >>><wsdl:types>
> >>><xs:schema targetNamespace="a">
> >>>types and elements
> >>></xs:schema>
> >>><xs:schema targetNamespace="a">
> >>>different types and elements
> >>></xs:schema>
> >>><xs:schema targetNamespace="b">
> >>>whatever
> >>></xs:schema>
> >>></wsdl:types>
> >>>...
> >>><wsdl:definition> 
> >>> 
> >>>It's not clear to me whether the above is legal or not (two 
> >>>schemas with the same targetNamespace="a").  Should XML 
> >>>parsers for WSDL be smart enough to handle the above?  Or 
> >>>should parsers report errors?  
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>Jeehong Min
> >>>Software Engineer
> >>>SOAPtest Development
> >>>Parasoft Corporation
> >>> 
> >>>"We Make Software Work"
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
-- 

David Booth
W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard

Received on Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:25:38 UTC