- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Oct 2000 13:06:57 +0100
- To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@xml.org>
In accord with a decision of the XML Schema Working Group, I have just changed the XML Schema document at http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.xsd to one using the current XML Schema syntax, that is, I have changed it from <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" ... to <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema" ... A version using the old syntax has been placed at http://www.w3.org/2000/04/xml.xsd, for importing by schema documents still using the http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema namespace and corresponding syntax. The schema document http://www.w3.org/1999/part2.xsd (<include>d by http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema.xsd) has accordingly been edited to read <import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2000/04/xml.xsd"> Bottom line: if you're still working with XML Schema documents using the http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema namespace, _and_ you <import> the XML namespace (http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace) directly, you should change your <import> statements to read as above. If you do not use the XML namespace directly, but only indirectly via the schema for schemas at http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema.xsd, you don't need to do anything. This is part of a retrospective cleanup of location of schema documents for well-known namespaces, trying to apply the following policy: There will always be an up-to-date schema document at the namespace URI, which will change when XML Schema changes (e.g. http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace); There will always be an _unchanging_ schema document at dated URL under www.w3.org (e.g. http://www.w3.org/2000/04/xml.xsd, http://www.w3.org/2000/10/xml.xsd) ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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