Re: [saml-dev] Resolving SAML and XML DSIG schemas when validatingSAML Assertio ns instances

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

> In our SAML processing implementation we prefer that we
> handle schema resolutions (for SAML Assertions as well as XML DSIG
> elements) from a local copy of their standard schema. However, we
> prefer altering the SAML schema w.r.t. removing the attribute
> 'schemaLocation'

schemaLocation is a hint.  For example, it can be used as the key to
a local cache.  Your application should not "blindly" follow the
value of that attribute.  Removing the attribute could break
conforming applications (ours included).
        /r$