Re: [xsl] Request help in understanding: node instance of schema-element(node)

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eliot,

At 01:14 PM 1/28/2008, you wrote:
> I think there's an important third reason, schema-driven editing, 
> where the schema is used by an editing tool to assist with creating 
> XML documents. In that case schemaLocation is a convenience for 
> binding a particular document to the schema to use to guide and 
> constrain authoring.

Yes: see my response to Tony Coates, who points out the same thing.

> Also, there is the important case of documents that have elements 
> not in a namespace--in that case there is no better solution than 
> schemaLocation for binding elements to their governing schemas. But 
> I also agree that in that case schemaLocation is no better than a 
> DOCTYPE declaration since you can't even check to see if the schema 
> referenced matches the schema you have configured for use with a 
> given namespace.

Indeed. Either namespaces are relied on to determine sets of rules to 
which a given sets of elements should conform, or they're not, and 
you have to do it some other way, and so does your stylesheet. :-)

Cheers,
Wendell



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