On Jan 29, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Barzilai Spinak wrote: > The thing is, I dont want to download the schemas from the web *every > time* > I need validation or a web service is called, etc. I should be able > to store local copies and do relative schemaLocation. This I absolutely agree with, and would go even further: I think the LoC should be releasing totally self-contained schemas, regardless of whether the development process using a bunch of different included files. I should download a single file. > So I download xml.xsd and xlink.xsd (which are the two schemas that > mods > depends on) and import them locally. It works fine, except for the > <!DOCTYPE...> section in xml.xsd I don't think the doctype declaration should be there to begin with. Rather odd to use it for a schema, and it can cause processes to choke if the DTD isn't present. Bruce