Excellent, that's what I was hoping for =)

Thanks again,
-Jack

> The spec gives implementations great latitude on this. I think that
> conforming processors could choose whichever definition they hit  
> first, or
> they could throw an error because there is more than one definition of
> {ns2}child, or they could recognize that the two definitions are  
> actually
> equivalent and avoid throwing the error. It's best to avoid the  
> situation
> arising.
>
> Saxon will tend to do the first of these: if you've already got a  
> schema (a
> set of schema components) for namespace {ns2} in your cache, then  
> an import
> of that namespace is a no-op, even if the schema location is  
> different. This
> is justified on the basis that the schema location is only a  
> "hint". As a
> general rule, it's troublesome to have several schemas in existence  
> for the
> same namespace - even though there are very good reasons for doing  
> it, such
> as validating the same document at different stages in its lifecycle.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jack Matheson [mailto:jack@s...]
>> Sent: 03 February 2006 20:32
>> To: xml-dev@l...
>> Subject: [xml-dev] XML Schema and instance documents
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how a schema-aware validating parser
>> decides which
>> schema to use in this case:
>>
>> ns1.xsd:
>> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>> targetNamespace="ns1">
>>     <xs:import schemaLocation="import.xsd" namespace="ns2"/>
>>
>>     <xs:element name="root"/>
>> </xs:schema>
>>
>> import.xsd:
>> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>> targetNamespace="ns2">
>>     <xs:element name="child"/>
>> </xs:schema>
>>
>> ns2.xsd:
>> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>> targetNamespace="ns2">
>>     <xs:element name="child"/>
>> </xs:schema>
>>
>> test.xml:
>> <a:root xmlns:a="ns1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
>> instance"
>>                xsi:schemaLocation="ns ns1.xsd ns2 ns2.xsd">
>>     <child xmlns="ns2"/>
>> </a:root>
>>
>> If I remove the "ns2 ns2.xsd" pairing from the instance document's
>> xsi:schemaLocation attribute, the rule defined by
>> import.xsd will be used. What happens when this attribute is
>> left in?
>> Is it up to the processor to decide?
>>
>> Any help is appreciated!
>>
>> -Jack
>>
>>
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