Re: Do you recognise this schema?

From:
Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:46:53 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mar 27, 6:24 am, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:10:48 -0400, Arne Vajh=F8j <a...@vajhoej.dk>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

Which part is not valid W3C XML Schema ?


The XSD schema have for JNLP 1.0 has <xsd all over instead of <xs

What is the difference?


None whatsoever. Namespace prefixes are intended for human
consumption; correctly-written tools will map tags to element
definitions (from schemas, etc) using the namespace URI, not the
prefix.

In the schema you posted, the root element looks like:

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<!-- ... -->
</xs:schema>

The xmlns:xs attribute binds the 'xs' namespace prefix to the URL
'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'. It could just as easily have been
xmlns:xsd and the element itself <xsd:schema>, or just xmlns
(no :prefix), and <schema>, which is my own preference. The document
would be the same in all three cases.

-o

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