How to reference a local XML Schema file correctly

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I m having this problem with referencing my XML Schema in an XML file   I have my XSD in this path   C  environment workspace maven-ws ProjectXmlSchema email xsd   But when in my XML file I m trying to locate the schema like this  the XSD is not found    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8    gt       lt email xmlns  http   www w3schools com             xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance             xsi schemaLocation  http   www w3schools com                  file   C   environment  workspace  maven-ws  ProjextXmlSchema  email xsd  gt    The only way the XSD is found is when it s in the same folder              xsi schemaLocation  http   www w3schools com email xsd    So the question is this  How does the path have to look so that the XSD will be found if the XML file wasn t in the same folder as the XSD file   By the way  the example I ve been using was from MSDN   they re claiming it s supposed to work the way I tried to  But it doesn t

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If you work in MS Visual Studio just do following   Put WSDL file and XSD file at the same folder  Correct WSDL file like this YourSchemeFile xsd       Use visual Studio using this great example How to generate service reference with only physical wsdl file   Notice that you have to put the path to your WSDL file manually  There is no way to use Open File dialog box out there

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Maybe can help to check that the path to the xsd file has not  strange  characters like       or similar  I was having the same issue but when I changed to a path without the      the error dissapeared

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Add one more slash after file    in the value of xsi schemaLocation    You have two  you need three   Think protocol   host path where protocol is  file  and host is empty here  yielding three slashes in a row    You can also eliminate the double slashes along the path   I believe that the double slashes help with file systems that allow spaces in file and directory names  but you wisely avoided that complication in your path naming   xsi schemaLocation  http   www w3schools com file    C  environment workspace maven-ws ProjextXmlSchema email xsd    Still not working   I suggest that you carefully copy the full file specification for the XSD into the address bar of Chrome or Firefox   file    C  environment workspace maven-ws ProjextXmlSchema email xsd  If the XSD does not display in the browser  delete all but the last component of the path  email xsd  and see if you can t display the parent directory   Continue in this manner  walking up the directory structure until you discover where the path diverges from the reality of your local filesystem   If the XSD does displayed in the browser  state what XML processor you re using  and be prepared to hear that it s broken or that you must work around some limitation   I can tell you that the above fix will work with my Xerces-J-based validator

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