Re: [xml-dev] (more details) embedding xml schema in an instance doc

"Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com> writes:

> The sForS is not a valid schema and thus should fail to validate. 

I think it's time to stop saying this.  As Eddie noted, there is only
one remaining issue (the use of whiteSpace in the definitions for the
builtin primitives) and this is a contentious issue -- validators
which enforce all and only the normative requirements now pass the
sForS.

> As for validating processors to allow
>
> <xs:import  namespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" />
> 
> so users can specify items from the http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
> namespace in their instance documents is a work around to this
> deficiency that I am not sure any validating processor currently
> implements.

Works in XSV.  But why do it?  All the public components from the
sForS are already available by definition, without any import being
required.

ht
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