Schema repo presentation

Mark Taylor m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk
Tue Mar 16 10:52:23 CET 2021


On Tue, 16 Mar 2021, Markus Demleitner wrote:

> >   - Or maybe just add a banner at the top of the table saying
> >     "Be careful of namespaces - see the XMLVers document for details"
> 
> I guess that's what we ought to do then.  Here's some HTML that we
> could put just below the "XML Schema" header.
> 
>   <p class="admonition">Note that schema versions and their target
>   namespace are largely decoupled as per our 
>   <a href="/documents/Notes/XMLVers">Schema versioning policies</a>.
>   For instance, the schema UWS-<strong>v1.1</strong>.xsd has the
>   target namespace http://www.ivoa.net/xml/UWS/<strong>v1.0</strong>
>   (and will be returned if you dereference that).  Always inspect the
>   targetNamespace attribute on the root element of the schema.</p>

Right, that would get my vote as something that should help a bit,
though I doubt it's going to spell the end of all namespace confusion.

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Mark Taylor  Astronomical Programmer  Physics, Bristol University, UK
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