Consider the following doc and schema: $ cat emptyns.xml <Urmel>33</Urmel>
$ cat emptyns.xsd <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xsd:element name="Urmel" type="Urmel_T"/> <!-- Convoluted typing just for the sake of the example --> <xsd:simpleType name="Urmel_T"> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:int"/> </xsd:simpleType> </xsd:schema> $ xmllint --noout --schema emptyns.xsd emptyns.xml emptyns.xml validates Now let's make a stupid edit to the schema file, add a redundant xmlns="" to the top-level element. This sets the empty namespace as the default namespace. And it is redundant because the empty namespace already *is* the default namespace. $ head -1 emptyns.xsd <xsd:schema xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> $ xmllint --noout emptyns.xsd # parses just fine The schema now fails to compile: $ xmllint --noout --schema emptyns.xsd emptyns.xml Element '{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}element', attribute 'type': References from this schema to components in the namespace '' are not allowed, since not indicated by an import statement. WXS schema emptyns.xsd failed to compile Should I add this to the bugtracker? Or is it just too stupid to be worthy of further attention? Michael -- NEU: FreePhone - 0ct/min Handyspartarif mit Geld-zurück-Garantie! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml