Re: Multiple <import> into same namespace?

Simon.Cox@csiro.au writes:

> A schema-factoring question.  
> 
> Is it OK to have more than one <import > with 
> the same value for the namespace, but different 
> values of the schemaLocation?  
> 
> The behaviour of processors in repsonse 
> to schemaLocation hints is not well defined.   
> So how should one to respond to being told to 
> look in two places for components in a single namespace?    
> I'd like it to construct a union of the components.  
> Is this a reasonable assumption?

XSV will ignore all xs:imports with the same namespace after the
first successful one, as the REC allows it to.

The safe way to do what you want is to define a stub schema document
in the imported namespace which consists of two (or more) xs:includes
of the documents you want, and then use _that_ schema doc as the
schemaLoc of a single xs:import.

ht
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Received on Thursday, 10 January 2002 04:58:28 UTC