Import Schema leads to XPath Problems

Question

Hallo,
When using a bpel process where I have some schema definitions included, I'm not able to access the contents of variables with XPath.
<schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified"
elementFormDefault="qualified"
targetNamespace="http://service.achrist.net/price/"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:tns="http://service.achrist.net/price/"
xmlns:md="http://service.achrist.net/masterdata/">
<import schemaLocation="MasterData.xsd" namespace="http://service.achrist.net/masterdata/"/>
<element name="PriceServiceProcessRequest">
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="item" type="md:Item"/>
<element name="supplier" type="md:Supplier"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>
</schema>
The XPath expression in the BPEL process then crosses the two namespaces
/client:PriceServiceProcessRequest/client:supplier/md:Name
When using the expression inside an assign-activity, the bpel-engine claims
"empty variable/expression result."
A workaround for this is to copy paste the xsd types into the same namespace ... but rather ugly ...
What is wrong with the imports ?

Answer 1

Hello,
I found one solution:
Changing the way how elements are created to:
<element name="PriceServiceProcessRequest">
          <complexType>
               <sequence>
                    <element ref="md:ItemElement"/>
<element ref="md:SupplierElement"/>
               </sequence>
          </complexType>
     </element>
... now it works as expected...
André