- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 03 May 2000 09:29:50 +0100
- To: "Curt Arnold" <carnold@houston.rr.com>
- Cc: <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
"Curt Arnold" <carnold@houston.rr.com> writes:
> 3.4 Undeclared target namespaces
>
> I have a problem with this. If you are going to the point of defining a
> schema, these elements and attributes are in a conceptual namespace whether
> or not you give it a name. The way targetNamespace is defined, I cannot
> write one schema that could be used to validate a XML 1.0 sans namespace
> document and also used in a to validate a document with namespace support.
That's precisely what you _can_ do. Write the schema with no
targetNS, it can be used as is for no-namespace documents, and
included into schemas _with_ a targetNS and thereby appropriated for
use with that target.
ht
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