RE: XSD version question

Hi Loren:
I believe this is one of those areas where you may not get a precise match between opinions.

In essence, a schema validator is deemed to know about (and to be able to query) information about a schema it uses for validating other XML documents.  That ability extends to schemas that were originally written in XML syntax and those that were not (“born binary”).

But in any case, “xsi:schemaLocation” is only a hint, and in such a case, pulling that information out would be non-deterministic, and an argument (among many) that the WG chose to avoid.

Best regards,
David

From: Loren Cahlander [mailto:loren.cahlander@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 7:26 PM
To: core
Subject: XSD version question

Hello folks,

I am in a quandary.  I am trying to to see how to refer to the value of the version attribute in an XSD in an XML instance.

<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"

               targetNamespace="urn:person-schema” version=“5">

    ...

</schema>
The instance can have:


          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema/instance"

          xsi:schemaLocation="urn:person-schema

                              urn:person-schema/person-schema.xsd"



How is the version attribute from the XSD to be carried to the XML instance?  I cannot find anything out there.

Why don’t we have xsi:schemaVersion?

Thanks,

Loren



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