- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Mar 2000 10:01:44 +0000
- To: achille@us.ibm.com
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
achille@us.ibm.com writes:
> Hi !
>
> In the latest spec, all the examples which show how to create a schema by
> assembling components from multiple sources use global namespace
> declarations (namespace declarations that appear at the level of the
> <schema> element information item) . Since the namespace spec allows to
> declare namespace in each element information item, I wonder if a schema
> with local scope namespace declarations is still a valid schema (provided
> that I add, for each namespace declaration, the corresponding import
> statement).
> Example :
>
> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema">
> <import namespace="http://www.w3.org/questions">
> <xsd:element name="A" type="xsd:string">
> <xsd:element name="B" xmlns:localprefix="http://www.w3.org/questions"
> type="localprefix:typeA">
> <xsd:schema>
>
> Thanks,
The short answer is 'yes'. See the schema for datatypes for an
example. For the long answer, see Noah's reply :-)
ht
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