BWI Namespaces

Introduction

This document describes the namespace conventions for B & W, Inc. for all their XML technologies. It further describes how to access that information.

A significant part of this process is validation, there are different ways to insure validation, you can check out our validation tool, or, you can use the on-line facilities of the W3C consortium:

Obviously there are various commercial tools and IDEs available.

BWI Namespace

The B&W, Inc. namespace for XML technologies is http://www.learninginstruments.com/ns with prefix bwi, thus the full declaration:

xmlns:bwi="http://www.learninginstruments.com/ns"

The following is the complete tag for each kind of document:

XML:
<bwi:[root element] [attributes] xmlns:bwi="http://www.learninginstruments.com/ns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mstns="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd">
XML with alternative namespace definition:
<bwi:[root element] [attributes] xmlns:bwi="http://www.learninginstruments.com/ns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
XML with schema location:
<bwi:[root element] [attributes] xmlns:bwi="http://www.learninginstruments.com/ns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.learninginstruments.com/ns/xsd/[root element].xsd">
XSL Stylesheet (XSLT):
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:bwi="http://www.learninginstruments.com/ns">

All named BWI XML Schemas are to be found in http://www.learninginstruments.com/ns/xsd (check with us for access).

Finally the first two lines standard declaration for BWI web (HTML / XHTML) documents are:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">