Re: Multiple XML schema files for a common target namespace (PROV-ISSUE-608)

I've added some code example of my proposed solution at

  http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/6113b10ac714/xml/experimental/extensions

See description of this folder here:

 http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvXMLNamespaces#Experimental_example

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes
<soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've tested and found it to be easy to do several schemas in the same
> namespace as long as they just <xsi:include> each-other.
>
>
> So you can have an hierarchy of imports like:
>
> prov.xsd
>   -- imports core.xsd
>   -- imports collection.xsd
>   ---- imports core.xsd
>   -- imports links.xsd
>   ---- imports core.xsd
>
> and so the top-level prov.xsd simply includes 2-3 <xsd:imports> of the
> underlying components.
>
>
> As far as I could figure it out, it means in the extensions the
> easiest way to 'fit in' would be to use abstract elements and
> substitution groups.
>
> See   http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvXMLNamespaces for a
> discussion of the different alternatives.
>
> I've also got some test-schemas with this working, but I have not
> committed them yet as they are on a different machine.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes
> <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Tracker, this is PROV-ISSUE-608
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes
>> <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> They are usually application/xml.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu> wrote:
>>>> prov-wg,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a mime type for xml schema?
>>>> Or, should we just use "application/xml"?
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to add it to http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvNamespaceManagement#Intro
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Following the teleconference, I did a little digging, and my understanding is that it *is* possible to have a schema for a common target namerspace build from a number of separate schema files:
>>>>>
>>>>>  http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#compound-schema
>>>>>
>>>>> By my reading, what you *cannot* do is have a single schema composed from multiple "sub-schema" defining terms in different target namespaces.
>>>>>
>>>>> #g
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
>>> School of Computer Science
>>> The University of Manchester
>>
>>
>>
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>> Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
>> School of Computer Science
>> The University of Manchester
>
>
>
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> Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
> School of Computer Science
> The University of Manchester



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School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester

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