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Re: [xml-dev] Transition from DTD to XML Schema specification

From: Robin Berjon <robin@-----.--->
To: Michael Kay <mike@--------.--->
Date: 6/5/2007 4:52:00 PM

On Jun 05, 2007, at 16:59, Michael Kay wrote:
> I would have said there were two approaches:
>
> (a) continue to work without namespaces. You haven't actually said  
> why you
> want to introduce a namespace, and you can use XML Schema without one.
>
> (b) introduce a couple of simple XSLT stylesheets to do the  
> conversion from
> the non-namespace form to the namespace form and perhaps vice  
> versa. Run the
> transformation on the input before you apply schema validation.

Another potential option: define your schema as a chameleon schema,  
and have another schema import it and give it the namespace, then  
validate with either.

-- 
Robin Berjon, who wonders if advocating chameleon schemata counts as  
trolling or not
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