XSD: XML files pass validation, but so do XSLs and XSDs

Question

So there\'s an XSD schema that validates a data file. It declares root element of the document, and then go complexType\'s that describe structure. The schema h

Answer 1

My understanding is that XML Schema (XSD) does not give any way of requiring that the root node of a document is a certain element -- the only way to do that is to restrict what elements are defined at "global level" to just one element. Is it possible that your validation code is importing the schema for XSLT, so that when it sees an XSLT document it validates because the XSLT elements have been defined at global level.