Location of Schemas

[sg...@us.ibm.com]

Microsoft office products already output documents that use Namespaces.
But they don't contain targetNamespace or schemaLocation attribute --
probably since XML Schema  is not yet a recommendation.  But what happens
when XML Schema does become a recommendation?  Are all these old documents
"wrong"?  Are they forever "un-validatable"?  Must they be rewritten?

Based on "XML Schema Part 1", section 6.3, particularly the "Schema
Representation Constraint: Schema Document Location Strategy",  indicate
that XML parsers should/may have mechanisms to provide schemaLocation
information outside the XML document itself.  Particularly for some of the
common and well-known Namespaces (XHTML, Work, Excel, etc), this does not
seem unreasonable.

Does Xerces have any function to provide schemaLocation type information
outside the XML document?

Scott Gerard,
IBMUSM07(sgerard)
Dept. DXS
Phone 507-253-7896 Tie 553-7896
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