Mark Brucks <bru...@charter.net> wrote on 10/22/2010 06:23:03 PM: > Your example is still dealing with the interpretation of a prefix in > an existing document, and I don't have an existing document. I am > in control of which namespaces and which prefixes would be used.
I was just giving a "simple" example. XML schema documents are XML documents. Unless you were also the schema author you have no control over whether the schema documents declare prefixes in this way. > HOWEVER, your last statement hits the nail on the head and explains > everything. Indeed, I have schema split across multiple documents, > where a given prefix could be used for multiple namespaces and any > namespace could have multiple prefixes. I realized that this > situation could occur in instance documents, without once thinking > that the same would be true for a schema composed from multiple > files. Of course, the sample schema I created have unique prefixes! > > Sorry for being so dense, and thanks for the replies. > > Mark > > On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > > I think an example will help to illustrate why such a method makes > no sense in the API. Consider the following document: > > > > <a:root xmlns:a="http://a"; xmlns:b="http://b"; > > xmlns:y="http://y"; xmlns:z="http://z";> > > <a:a xmlns:a="http://www.abc.com"; xmlns:x="http://www.xyz.com";> > > <a:a xmlns:a="http://www.xyz.com"; xmlns:x="http://www.abc.com"/> > > </a:a> > > <y:a xmlns:b="http://www.abc.com"; xmlns:y="http://www.xyz.com";> > > <y:a xmlns:b="http://www.xyz.com"; xmlns:y="http://www.abc.com"/> > > </y:a> > > </a:root> > > > > What is the prefix for "http://www.abc.com";? Without also > considering the context you can't give a sensible answer. An XSModel > may be composed of multiple schema documents which could also have > different prefix mappings in each of them for the same namespaces. > > > > Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
