Best practices for referencing XML schema in XML document

[drimell]

Hi there,

I am new to both XML and this forum. I wonder if anybody could answer this question?

I have written my well-formed XML document, and i have written my XML schema document. I can validate my XML document against my schema by including the following line in my XML document:

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xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="C:\test\OnlineProperties.xsd
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That's fine when i want to validate my XML code locally on my PC. However, I will be sending this XML feed to a third party company so i don't know which path to include because i don't know where they will be storing the XML schema.

If anyone has experience in using XML for transferring data from Business 2 Business:

- is it best to omit the path and always assume the XML schema will be saved in the same location as the xml doc?

- is the recipient normally responsible for setting the schema path?

- is it possible to embed the schema WITHIN the xml doc?

- is it best to make the schema available over the internet (not the best solution for me)

Hopefully you could give me the benefit of your experience.

Thanks

David

 

[JontyMC]

How will you be sending the data? Web service? Why don't you just validate it before you send it? Schema with URI is the best choice (internet)

Jon

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