XML Schema Header & Namespace Config
- by zharvey
Migrating from DTD to XSD and for some reason the transition is a bumpy one. I understand how to define the schema once I'm inside the <xs:schema> root tag, but getting past the header & namespace declaration stuff is proving to be especially confusing for me.
I have been trying to follow the well-laid out tutorial on W3S but even that tutorial seems to assume a lot of knowledge up front.
I guess what I'm looking for is a King's English explanation of which attributes do what, where they go, and why:
xmlns
xmlns:xs
xmlns:xsi
targetNamespace
xsi:schemaLocation
And in some cases I see different variations of these elements/attributes, such as xsi which seems to have two different notations like xsi:schemaLocation="..." and xs:import schemaLocation="...".
I guess between all these slight variations I can't seem to make heads or tails of what each of these does. Thanks in advance for bringing any clarity to this confusion!
