Troubble in namespace land

Evening gents,

I’m having an issue I can’t seem to wrap my head around and solve it.

I have an xml like this:

Root xmlns=“http://Test1“ xmlns:test=“http://Test2“><test:data>

Field>Field_0</Field></test:data>

Root>

It has an element reference to another namespace, but the root doesn’t have a namespace prefix. Without the test2 what I would have to do was to set the element formdefault to qualified. but once I add the reference to Test2 the “Field” element generates a validation error:

The element ‘data’ in namespace ‘http://Test2&#8217; has invalid child element ‘Field’ in namespace ‘http://Test1&#8217;. List of possible elements expected: ‘Field’.

I can get around that in a few different ways by changing the xml file, but in this case that is not an option, I need to be able to define a schema that matches the xml as it is.

Test1.xsd:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-16″?>
<xs:schema xmlns:b=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003” xmlns:test=”http://Test2” xmlns=”http://Test1” elementFormDefault=”qualified” targetNamespace=”http://Test1” xmlns:xs=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema“>
  <xs:import schemaLocation=”Test2.xsd” namespace=”http://Test2” />
  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:appinfo>
      <b:references>
        <b:reference targetNamespace=”http://SomePlace” />
      </b:references>
    </xs:appinfo>
  </xs:annotation>
  <xs:element name=”Root”>
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element ref=”test:data” />
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

Test2.xsd:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-16″?>
<xs:schema xmlns:b=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003” xmlns=”http://Test2” elementFormDefault=”unqualified” targetNamespace=”http://Test2” xmlns:xs=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema“>
  <xs:element name=”data”>
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name=”Field” type=”xs:string” />
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

Any pointers would be much apprechiated!

Thanks, Dan