Re: WSDL/XSD: Several imports with the same namespace not working

[Thomas Bayer]

Hi Markus,

if you can import multiple schemas of the same namespace is disputed. In some tools you can and in some you can not. The specification is also not clear about that. The idea to make things simple is that to one namespace belongs one schema.

See also the following discussions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4998063/one-xml-namespace-equals-one-and-only-one-schema-file

http://kontrawize.blogs.com/kontrawize/2007/10/the-trouble-wit.html

The better way would be to use an additional schema that includes multiple schemas of the same namespace into one. And then import this schema in your schema of a different namespace. This would also increase the interoperability. But unfortunately you can not alter the schemas.

If we what to make SOA Model to work with multiple imports of the same namespace we have to make the internal management of namespace much more complicated. I do not know if this is worth the effort. But you can of course fork the code at github and fix it. I am than glad about a pull request to include it into the master branch.

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Thomas

[Thomas Bayer]

Hi Markus,
thanks for your valueable contribution. I and Kaveh will have a look at
your patch.

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Thomas