Difference between <import ....xsd> and <xlink:href=.....xsd> ????

[Bernd Oninger]

As far as I know one could use other xsd schemas with the import and the xlink feature.
What are the differences (beside the syntax)?

Bernd

[Henry S. Thompson]

be******@hotmail.com (Bernd Oninger) writes:

As far as I know one could use other xsd schemas with the import and
the xlink feature. What are the differences (beside the syntax)?

<xs:import namespace='...'> in a schema document enables the use of
references to components defined in another schema for a different
namespace.

W3C XML Schema assigns no special semantics to the 'href' attribute in
the XLink namespace, and conformant W3C XML Schema processors are
_required_ to ignore it, along with all other explicitly
namespace-qualified attributes, for schema-validity assessment
purposes.

ht
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