Hi Mark, 

If you'd be using these in Microsoft Word, by using the same TargetNamespace 
in both the xml and xsd files you can get Word to associate the schema. 
Assuming it's been added to the user's schema library, that is.

> We have developed about 80 XML documents, each probably 150 lines long, that
> are all supposed to conform to a schema.  My understanding is the way to
> show that an XML document conforms to a schema is to include a reference to
> the XSD in the XML document, and check that it is valid.
>  
> Some other members of the project team don't want to include a reference to
> the XSD in the XML documents, citing possible differences in parsers.
>  
> Is my understanding of XML / XSD correct?  That is, the standard way to
> prove that a well formed XML document conforms to a schema is to include the
> reference to the XSD in the XML document.
>

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister 
http://www.word.mvps.org

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