I am still heavily editing my sample xml instances as discussed yesterday in the SM3 meeting.
However I think I've figured out part of the problem.
When I look at vendor extensions (i.e. the 'xs:any' elements) in many of the 185 schemas, I see that the corresponding namespace shows '##other'.
That matches my studies, as I was able to refer to objects of my own Conexant specific schema which I had properly incorporated.
I think that '##other' definition prevents me from referencing any objects of the targetNamespace.
And indeed, once I start replacing the '##other' lines with a generic vendor element, I make significant progress:
Before
<xs:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
Now
<xs:element name="VendorExtension" type="VendorExtension" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
And declare the VendorExtension object:
<xs:complexType name="VendorExtension">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:any namespace="##any" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
Note:
A 'any' element has to be the only element in the controlling object; or the schema becomes ambiguous.
Therefore I had to move that definition out of the objects that may want an extension and put it in a single VendorExtension object.
I'm sure there are reasons to work with a '##other' namespace, but at least that is part of our syntax problem.
Agreed?
Norbert
Norbert Schade
Systems Engineer (printing)
Imaging Solutions
Conexant Systems, Inc.
201 Jones Road
Waltham, MA 02451
U.S.A.
Tel: 1-781-370-8929
Email: norbert.schade at conexant.com<mailto:norbert.schade at conexant.com>
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