This schema is not normative, or even definitive. The prose copy in the XLink 1.1 recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink11/) is definitive, although it should not differ from this file, except for the absence of these two initial comments.

In keeping with the W3C's standard versioning policy, this schema document will persist at http://www.w3.org/XML/2008/06/xlink.xsd. At the date of issue it can also be found at http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink.xsd. The schema document at that URI may however change in the future, in order to remain compatible with the latest version of XML Schema itself, or with the XLink namespace itself. In other words, if the XML Schema or XLink namespaces change, the version of this document at http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink.xsd will change accordingly; the version at http://www.w3.org/2008/06/xlink.xsd will not change.

This schema document provides attribute declarations and attribute group, complex type and simple type definitions which can be used in the construction of user schemas to define the structure of particular linking constructs, e.g. <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" location="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink.xsd"> <xs:element name="mySimple"> <xs:complexType> ... <xs:attributeGroup ref="xl:simpleAttrs"/> ... </xs:complexType> </xs:element> ... </xs:schema>