Re: Context Sensitive Element Definitions in W3C XSD Schema?

Yes, very non-intuitive.

XSD 1.1 allows a targetNamespace attribute on a local xs:element, but only under very restricted circumstances. I argued for removing all restrictions and allowing it anywhere, but others wanted to keep a stronger relationship between schema modules and namespaces, so I didn't win that one.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 26 Aug 2013, at 00:51, Steve Batides wrote:

> Michael,
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> It's non-intuitive (to me) that the namespace distinction can be achieved by wrapping the local declaration in a group declaration, but I guess it sort of makes sense after a bit of thought. I have only tested it with one editor, but I implemented one such group in the desired IF namespace but containing a "customized" local declaration of the IF element, and it works. I'll test a couple other validators later, but your suggestion was correct. Thanks VERY much; it's a bit of work to build the infrastructure XSLT to modify and maintain it, but I now have a solution that is going to do what we need. I should have found this forum years ago...
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