Can I have one XML Schema (XSD) include another XML-Schema?

Question

I currently have two XSD schemes and one is a \"light\" version of the other. Right now I have everything in the \"light\" version repeated in the \"complete\" schema, but t

Answer 1

Use the <include> element, see for example here.

Answer 2

There are two methods for this.

<xsd:include schemaLocation="pathToFile" /> should be used for including files of the same namespace.

<xsd:import namespace="namespace" schemaLocation="pathToFile" /> should be used for include files in a different namespace. Usually you will specify the namespace given as the targetNamespace of the imported schema.