About targetNamespace

[Steven Gao Song]

Hi, everyone,

I am reading the book RMH. On page 36,
it says that targetNamespace attribute declares the XML namespace of all
new types explicitly created within the schema.
So, in its example, USAddress type is automatically assigned to targetNamespace.
Since USAddress is in targetNamespace automatically, why the schema element still assigns a prefix mh to USAddress as "mh:USAddress"?

Thank you.

[Mike Pandey]

It is done to re-use the type declared elsewhere. Either for the top-level element or as local elements of some other complex types to be defined.

[Maddy]

All namespaces need to be imported into an XML schema...The targetNamespace is no exception...Even though the target is "self" we still have to import it like any other namespace

So there are two ways to import a namespace, with and without prefix.

With Prefix
<schema targetNamespace="http://meme.com/namespace"
xmlns:mh="http://meme.com/namespace">

Here the prefix is mh:
Any element would be declared as
<attribute name="meme" type="mh:Meme"/>

Without prefix
<schema targetNamespace="http://meme.com/namespace"
xmlns="http://meme.com/namespace">

Here there is no prefix as "self" is assumed to be the default namespace
Any element would be declared as
<attribute name="meme" type="Meme"/>

Hope this helps
[ June 09, 2007: Message edited by: Maddy ]

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