Hello,

I am confused about the expected behavior of the 'form' property for =
elements and for attributes under schema composition operations.

How should the 'form' property of elements and of attributes (top level =
and internal) be affected upon schema composition operations =
(xsd:include, xsd:import and xsd:redefine) when targetNamespace is (or =
isn't) defined in the included/imported document and a targetNamespace =
is defined in the including/importing document?

Are they supposed to maintain their 'form' property? Should they take =
the 'form' property induced by the importing/including document? Does =
the expected behavior change if elementFormDefault/attributeFormDefault =
is defined in the importing/including document or in the =
imported/included document (or both)? Does it matter whether or not =
'form' property is explicitly listed for an element/attribute in these =
cases?

While I think that the following is clear, I am not clear about the =
remaining cases:
1. top level names in a schema document with no target namespace are =
unqualified
2. top level names in a schema document with a target namespaces are =
qualified
3. top level names in a schema document with no target namespace that =
are included/imported into a schema document that has a target namespace =
are qualified

Is that true?

What is the expected behavior in all the cases that are not one of the =
above listed 3 cases?

Thanks.

Shlomo