- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Jun 2001 14:57:20 +0100
- To: Yadira Taylor <ytaylor@Qcorps.com>
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Yadira Taylor <ytaylor@Qcorps.com> writes:
> I have a situation in which I need to have a circular include/import.
> When I run my schema through a validator, I get
> an infinite loop. Please advise.
>
> Example:
>
> output.xsd
> targetNamespace = "http://OUTPUT"
> xmlns:ERROR_HANDLER = "http://ERROR_HANDLER"
> import namespace = http://ERROR_HANDLER schemaLocation =
> "errorHandler.xsd"
>
> errorHandler.xsd
> targetNamespace = "http://ERROR_HANDLER"
> xmlns:OUTPUT = "http://OUTPUT"
> import namespace = "http://OUTPUT" schemaLocation = "output.xsd"
>
> components.xd
> xmlns:OUTPUT = "http://OUTPUT"
> xmlns:ERROR_HANDLER = "http://ERROR_HANDLER"
> import namespace = "http://ERROR_HANDLER" schemaLocation =
> "errorHandler.xsd"
> import namespace = "http://OUTPUT" schemaLocation = "output.xsd"
>
>
> They are separated like that because other schemas I have us either
> output.xsd or errorHandler.xsd exclusively.
> Is there a way to conditionally include/import a schema if not included
> before?
Processors are expected to handle this case -- it's not the schema
document author's job to worry about this. At least one processor
(XSV) will not loop on that configuration.
ht
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