Schema for includes

[mbakeranalecta]

To ensure that all SAM documents are stand alone, an include must be specified in the schema and must specify the structure of the document that is included. This can either be done by specifying the block or blocks from the current schema that can be included:

 <<<(section, list)

Or by indicating another schema:

<<<(http://example.com/schema.sams)

In the former case, the current schema is used to evaluate the imported file. In the second case, the specified schema is loaded and used to evaluate the imported file.

[mbakeranalecta]

It is worth noting here that because we have the capacity to validate the result document against an XML schema, we really have two forms of validations for these issues. The XML validation works on the result of doing the include. The SAM schema works on the components of the include. Does this distinction make any difference to what we want the SAM schema to do?