RE: Xml Schema profile

> XML schema carries no implication at all that the type  ns:t as used in
one validation episode will be the same as in another. 

 
And this of course is the issue I had to tackle in Saxon, where it's rather
important that when a query does "$x instance of element(*, my:type)" it's
talking about the same my:type that was used when validating the document
containing node $x.
 
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/