[tei-council] xsi:location

[Conal Tuohy]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 00:59 +0100, James Cummings wrote:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > I have successfully added the xsi:schemaLocation thing to DTDs;
> > however, when I add it to the RELAX NG schema, and thence to
> > the XSD generated by trang, it is illegal:
> > 
> > P5/Test/x.xsd:5:40: error: no-xsi: The {target namespace} of an 
> > attribute declaration must not match 
> > 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'.
> > 
> > So it is built into XSD processors that they recognize the
> > attribute, but it is illegal if you actually declare it.  Words
> > fail me, really.

Yes it is a bit ridiculous.

> > So unless someone has a good idea how to get around this,
> > I can only do it for DTDs.
> 
> If we can't do it for all, I'd say we shouldn't do it at all.
> 
> > Note that the conversion from RNG to XSD is a black box
> > (trang) which we cannot easily touch.

I suppose we could preprocess the RNG XML as as a special-case stage in
the XSD-generating pipeline? 

> Ask Mr Clark what he'd suggest?  Why is he trapping that as an error?

Good point. 

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Conal Tuohy
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
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