- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:20:52 -0700
- To: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: "Paul Prescod" <paul@prescod.net>, <robin.berjon@expway.fr>, <www-tag@w3.org>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, <cmsmcq@w3.org>
> > True; if they happen to use the same schema *and* the > > same schema-validation tools, and they do make sure > > that the schema is associated with a namespace name > > explicitly (not always the case), then they ought to be > > bug-compatible, yes. > > I'm a little confused: are you suggesting that there are any conforming > (or even plausible buggy) implementations of XML schema that would No, not at all. I was just suggesting that it is *possible* for two departments to validate against the "same" schema without using the same namespace name to actually publish their document to another group. This is fairly plausible in the case of xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation. I didn't mean to suggest that Paul was wrong. There are certainly best practices that can be followed to mitigate the problems I outlined earlier, as he points out. I simply was expressing skepticism that those best practices are necessarily obvious or likely to be sought out and adhered to by average folks.
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