Hi Matt,

Philippe is right, NVDL should work, I also should have suggested it.
You can find the available NVDL implementations linked from here

http://nvdl.org/

In addition to those listed there you can also use Jing from
http://code.google.com/p/jing-trang/
because the oNVDL implementation was merged back into Jing. Note however 
that you need to check out Jing [1] and just run its build script to get 
the jars with NVDL support, for details see [2].

Basically you need to create a script that in the initial mode matches 
on each namespace you are interested in and validates with the schema 
for each namespace using a mode that attaches all the descendant 
sections to the initial one, something like below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rules xmlns="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/nvdl/ns/structure/1.0" 
startMode="match">
     <mode name="match">
         <namespace ns="http://www.example.com/namespaceA">
             <validate schema="a.xsd" useMode="attach"/>
         </namespace>
         <namespace ns="http://www.example.com/namespaceB">
             <validate schema="b.xsd" useMode="attach"/>
         </namespace>
     </mode>
     <mode name="attach">
         <anyNamespace><attach/></anyNamespace>
     </mode>
</rules>

Note also that using NVDL allows you to use not only XML Schema but also 
Schematron and Relax NG and also you can validate a document against 
multiple schemas:

Relax NG:
         <namespace ns="http://www.example.com/namespaceC">
             <validate schema="c.rng" useMode="attach"/>
         </namespace>
Multiple validations, against XSD and Schematron:
         <namespace ns="http://www.example.com/namespaceD">
             <validate schema="d.xsd" useMode="attach"/>
             <validate schema="d.sch" useMode="attach"/>
	</namespace>

[1] http://code.google.com/p/jing-trang/source/checkout
[2] http://code.google.com/p/jing-trang/wiki/HowToBuildFromSource

Best Regards,
George
-- 
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
www.---.com

Johnson, Matthew C. (LNG-HBE) wrote:
> Thank you Philippe.  I had been considering NVDL (I recall a thread
> involving Roger Costello on NVDL) but have not had time to investigate
> further.  Perhaps, this will give me the proper motivation!
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Philippe Poulard [mailto:philippe.poulard@s...]
>> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 4:28 AM
>> To: Johnson, Matthew C. (LNG-HBE)
>> Cc: xml-dev@l...
>> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] validation against xml schema (xsd)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think NVDL can do this for you:
>> http://nvdl.org/
>>
>> --
>> Cordialement,
>>
>>                ///
>>               (. .)
>>   --------ooO--(_)--Ooo--------
>> |      Philippe Poulard       |
>>   -----------------------------
>>   http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/
>>         Have the RefleX !
> 
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