[security-services] Repeated: XML schemaLocation in core25

Pardon the pushiness but if this question has a simple answer like
this is the new de-facto way of doing XML it should be nice to
get it. 
/a

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anders Rundgren" <>
To: "OASIS SAML" <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 20:54
Subject: schemaLocation in SAML schemas/docs


Hi,
This may be a stupid XML question but I have some problems
understanding why a line like the SAML assertion-schemas'

     schemaLocation="draft-sstc-schema-assertion-25.xsd"

makes any sense.

W3C's WSDL does not have such declarators neither in the schema or in the
sample instance-documements to take an example of a recent XML schema-
based standard.

That you need this when editing with XML Spy is for sure (as it does
not seem to support schema caching), but how useful is a local file-reference
in a real implementation?

BTW, does SAML instance documents need schemaLocations as well?

Personally, I think schemaLocations should be removed as all reasonable
XML systems support schema caching.

Anders R