Re: Why specify namespaces in xsi:schemaLocation ?

Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:

> When you use XSV, you can give it a bunch of schema locations on the
> command line and it's able to figure out by himself which target
> namespaces are described by which schema location.
> 
> Why is it different when you want to specify schema locations in an
> instance document (an also using a SAX property with Xerces) ?

The command line option is largely there to allow you to work offline,
by providing local copies.  XSV can however get confused, as it
doesn't know what namespace you want the schema for until after it
reads it, so you sometimes get in principle spurious complaints about
redefinition.

ht
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