How abstract components are created when reading a schema – an animation in 12 slides -- schemas that use <include> and <import>

  • July 26, 2002 5:00pm

    Parse of a top level schema document.

    Parse of s1 <xs:schema targetNamespace=“t1”>

    Parse of s1 <xs:include schemaLocation=“s3.xsd”>

    Parse of s3 <xs:schema targetNamespace=“t1”>

    Parse of s3 <xs:element name=“t1e2” type=“xs:string”/>

    Parse of s3 </xs:schema>

    Parse of s1 <xs:import namespace=“t2” schemaLocation=“s2.xsd”/>

    Parse of s2 <xs:schema targetNamespace=“t2”/>

    Parse of s2 <xs:element name=“t2e1” type=../>

    Parse of s2 </xs:schema>

    Parse of s1 <xs:element name=“t1e1”../>

    Parse of s1 </xs:schema>