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The schema definitions of Veloconnect are distributed among several modules which depend on each other in some cases. Each module has its own namespace, whose name is formed according to the version guideline. In the current specification, we have five modules with the following namespaces:
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Within each xsd file, no prefix is used for the current namespace. An XML document instance valid according to this XML schema must use qualified names, that is, with namespace specifications. In particular, this makes it possible to distinguish between different versions of this specification. The section on version management and compatibility explains how future versions of the Veloconnect specification might differ from this one, and how to accommodate this in implementations.
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