RE: including a schema document multiple times

> I haven't heard anyone question the intent of the section 
> quoted by Sandy in the common case where two includes have 
> schemaLocations with exactly the same URI.  

> Anyway:  I think there are important cases in which the 
> recommendation is quite clear. 

I agree that it's common sense to treat two includes on the same
(absolutized) URI as identical. I disagree that the Recommendation makes it
clear that you should do so. (It doesn't even make it clear how you should
absolutize the URI, for example I've heard a serious suggestion recently
that it's incorrect to take xml:base into account.)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/