RE: reference to element, elementFormDefault unqualified

Thanks for pointing this out. I'm merely setting
elementFormDefault="unqualified" to hide namespaces from my instance documents
so that it's not visible which component an element belongs to (making 
instance
documents a lot more readable).

So do you suggest that's not really a good practice?

cheers,
Oli


Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> writes:

>
> elementFormDefault="unqualified" means that a locally-declared element (one
> declared with <element name="x"> as part of a complex type) will be in no
> namespace. (I've always thought this was a weird thing to want to do.)
> Elements declared at the top level of a schema are always in the target
> namespace of that schema, regardless of the value of elementFormDefault in
> either their own schema document or in a referencing schema document.
>
> You might be able to achieve what you want using chameleon includes, but
> that's another strange facility that I prefer to admire from a distance.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/


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