[xsd-users] Cross file references

[Till Steinbach]

Dear mailing list users,

i have a question concerning references. I have a huge XSD schema of my meta model that was generated from an Ecore model. My instances are divided in multiple xml files each with its own root. There are references between the files.

Example:

------------foo.xml---------------
<foo>
	<bar name="foobar"/>
</foo>


------------model.xml---------------
<model>
	<referencing element refBar="foo.xml#//foo/bar[@name='foobar']">
</model>


I then try to parse the model.xml. Of course the parser is not able to resolve the refBar object correctly since it does not understand the syntax of the reference (It is the EMF syntax). If there would be another way to specify such links I could change the references on the fly before parsing.

Is there a way to use links to elements in other files with xsd? I currently use xcerces as underlaying xml parser.


Thanks!
Till




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