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How to create an XSD that references another XSD that exists in a separate jar - dependency

I want to create an XSD, lets call that XSD_A, that resides under module: module_A. I want to reference, by either including or importing another XSD, lets call that XSD_B from another module, module_B.

XSD_B resides under the resources of module_B and should therefore be packaged into a JAR. I want the XSD_A to be compiled by xjc to create Java Classes on compile time, which I am properly using as a maven configuration without a problem so far.

XSD_B is an official XSD that starts with:

  <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://my.own.url" xmlns:vc="http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-versioning" targetNamespace="http://my.own.targetNamespace" elementFormDefault="unqualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified" vc:minVersion="1.1">

My initial approaches are:

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
 xmlns="http://example.com/b"
xmlns:ec="http://my.own.targetNamespace"
targetNamespace="http://example.com/b"
elementFormDefault="qualified">
<xs:import namespace="http://my.own.targetNamespace" schemaLocation="/PATH_TO_REFENCE_XSD_B"/>

I have also tried to use:

 schemaLocation="/PATH_TO_REFENCE_XSD_B"/

Without success. My questions are:

  1. How can I do this?
  2. Will the XSD be build properly in non-local compilation?
Solution

  • The easiest and most reliable way is to extract the dependent schema out of the JAR file and put aside your own schema.