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Virus721
Virus721

Reputation: 8315

Referencing XSD from XML

I've been looking for a way to attach an XSD to an XML file so that a program openning that XML can access to the corresponding XSD, but all the anwers i found included the use of a namespace without even a single explaination about it.

I only have an XSD, i don't have a "namespace" or whatever that is. How can i just reference my XSD into an XML file ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 56

Answers (1)

Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts

Reputation: 122364

If you have a schema without a targetNamespace then you can attach it to a non-namespaced XML file using xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation on the root element

<example xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="schema.xsd">

A validating parser will attempt to resolve the schema location as a relative URL against the location of the XML document, you may want to use an absolute URL rather than a relative one if the schema and document are not in the same place.

xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://example.com/schema.xsd"

Upvotes: 1

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