I currently have two XSD schemes and one is a ‘light’ version of the other. Right now I have everything in the ‘light’ version repeated in the ‘complete’ schema, but this becomes a pain when I need to make a change, and it goes against the DRY principle anyways, so I was wondering if there was an element that served to include another schema into a schema, so I can have my ‘complete’ inherit from the ‘light’ schema to reduce maintenance hurdles.
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There are two methods for this.
<xsd:include schemaLocation='pathToFile' />should be used for including files of the same namespace.<xsd:import namespace='namespace' schemaLocation='pathToFile' />should be used for include files in a different namespace. Usually you will specify the namespace given as the targetNamespace of the imported schema.