Re: How to associate XML with XSD

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I think I found most of my answers myself. (Actually, a coworker happened to
wander by my padded cell and he enlightened me ;-) I'd appreciate if someone
who actually knows this stuff would comment on this posting to let me know if
I've got this more or less correct. Thanks!

1. Assuming that I have an XML file and its associated XSD file, what do I put
into the XML file to tell Visual Studio to use the XSD file to wire up
intellisense?

My coworker showed me how to include a bunch of xmlns gibberish in the top-level
element to specify the schema location:

<TopLevelElement
xmlns="MyDefaultNamespace"
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
xsi:schemaLocation="MyDefaultNamespace MySchemaFile.xsd" >

In the above example, "MyDefaultNamespace" is usually a string that looks like a
web URL, but it can pretty much be any string that doesn't include whitespace or
escaped characters.

2. Is there something else that I need to (or should) do to tell the VS IDE
that my XML file has an associated XSD file?

The "properties" for the XML file includes a field that specifies the related
XSD file. I don't know what happens if this property conflicts with the above
XML text.

The existence of this property solves another mystery -- how the IDE knows about
the schema of app.config files even though the text of the app.config file
doesn't contain any obvious reference to a schema file.



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