[Fwd: RE: Can multiple inline schemas have same targetNamespace?]

Can the XML Schema WG shed some light on this?   It seems clear that if
both inline schema declarations for targetnamespace "a" below were to
define the same type X differently then it would be an error.   But what
if they both defined the same type X exactly the same?  Would the XML
Schema spec consider this to be an error or not?  Or is it
implementation dependent?  

I can envision two viewpoints, and I don't know which of these is
correct:

View 1: It's an error, because you've declared two different components
with the same name (even though the definitions happen to be the same).

View 2: It's not an error, because both declarations are declaring the
exact same component.  XML Schema deals with a *set* of components --
not a bag.  Declaring once that a component is in the set is
mathematically the same as declaring it twice or more.

Can the XML Schema WG provide some guidance or advice on this?


-- 

David Booth
W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard

attached mail follows:

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"
>