Nope. Actually I had considered that the solution of it being a
Chameleon schema was the correct one but having delved further into
the whole product it seems the top level schemas are also without a
namespace however the elementFormDefault for them is unqualified.

I guess that is a chameleon schema in a way, except without any
particular good reason for why it is that way.

Ah well. It is all too painful.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen



On 5/10/07, Paul Spencer <xml-dev-list@b...> wrote:
> Or could it simply be that the tool used for development includes the
> elementFormDefault="qualified" by default and it was just left in?
>
> Paul
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bryan rasmussen [mailto:rasmussen.bryan@g...]
> > Sent: 03 May 2007 14:27
> > To: George Cristian Bina
> > Cc: XML Developers List
> > Subject: Re: [xml-dev] what is the meaning of
> > elementFormDefault="qualified" in a schema without a targetnamespace?
> >
> >
> > thanks, I keep falling afoul of this, I guess I've spent too long with
> > Venetian blind and Salami slice schemas to consider any other design
> > pattern.
> >
> > I swear I had the same problem looking at some schemas about this same
> > time last year, and then totally blocked the solution out of my mind.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bryan Rasmussen
> >
> > On 5/3/07, George Cristian Bina <george@o...> wrote:
> > > Hi Bryan,
> > >
> > > The target namespace for that schema is absent. If you include the
> > > schema from another one that has a target namespace then the components
> > > from that schema will have that target namespace (I believe this is
> > > called chameleon schema).
> > > See an example below:
> > >
> > > test.xsd
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> > > targetNamespace="http://example.com">
> > >      <xs:include schemaLocation="common.xsd"/>
> > > </xs:schema>
> > >
> > > common.xsd
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> > > elementFormDefault="qualified">
> > >      <xs:element name="test">
> > >          <xs:complexType>
> > >              <xs:sequence>
> > >                  <xs:element name="a"/>
> > >                  <xs:element name="b"/>
> > >              </xs:sequence>
> > >          </xs:complexType>
> > >      </xs:element>
> > > </xs:schema>
> > >
> > > The following instance is valid against test.xsd
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > <test xmlns="http://example.com"
> > >      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> > >      xsi:schemaLocation="http://example.com test.xsd">
> > >      <a></a>
> > >      <b></b>
> > > </test>
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > George
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > George Cristian Bina - http://aboutxml.blogspot.com/
> > > <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
> > > www.---.com
> > >
> > >
> > > bryan rasmussen wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > As per the subject line.
> > > >
> > > > I am looking over a rather big application with some XML schemas in
> > > > which elementFormDefault is always given as qualified but there is no
> > > > targetNamespace. This strikes me as weird because the implication is
> > > > that one would have instances like this
> > > >
> > > > <t:test xmlns:t="" xsi:schemaLocation="myschema.xsd"
> > > > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
> > > >
> > > > which by my understanding would be very illegal.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Bryan Rasmussen
> > > >
> > > >
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