At this point I don't know if the concept is even sound according to XML
convention; I am wondering if there is a way to apply a schema I have
locally when parsing a document received from an external source.
Essentially, rather than validating for the purpose of determining
whether a document is well-formed according to a schema that it declares
it conforms to, I want to validate that a document generated by
something else is well-formed according to an offline schema I install
with my app.  In essence, I want to use XML validation to verify that
the contents of a data file are valid, however this must be done on
systems that do not have access to a network connection necessarily, and
 the installation path, and therefore the location of my xsd file, can
vary between installations.  I do not see how to, using MSXML6, to apply
my own schema in the validation of a document; all of the examples I've
seen have the document calling out the schema that it will validate
against, which would require the XML document to be hard coded to some
universally accessible path.

Thanks all!