- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:45:28 -0400
- To: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Cc: NJayaraman@tomax.com, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org, www-xml-schema-comments-request@w3.org, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Henry Thompson writes: >> The URL of the schema document should be used >> as the base for relative URLs in the >> schemaLocation attributes of xs:include and xs:import, >> in my opinion, although I don't _think_ the REC says >> anything about this. I agree, but would put it slightly differently: as we've all said repeatedly, schemaLocation is a hint. It's a hint. It's a hint. Processors can ignore any or all schemaLocations if they so desire. They can therefore choose to ignore relative ones, among others. A reasonable interpretation of RFC 2396, section 5.2 [1], is that a schema processor designed in conformance with general web URI architecture will indeed interpret the relative URI as Henry suggests, if it chooses to honor the hint at all. The schema specification does not restate or reinterpret the usual rules for handling URIs on the Web, except when schema-specific issues arise. [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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