Being new to xml and Access 2007, I have a question about the URL's that are placed in the ribbon xml code. Many of these url's are specific to schema's on a specific site on the internet. Does this adversley affect the ribbons behavior if the user of the application does not have a current connection to the internet?

Thanks in advance for any information!

I don't believe so although I have little experience with this particular use of XML. Namespaces traditionally use URIs but this is to make sure they are unique, the files are not retrieved from those locations and are not necessarily found there. If you post some of the XML I might be able to clarify further. You could always try using Office without an internet connection :)

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

I've no idea what ribbons are, but I suspect the URIs that you are referring to are namespace declarations. They are URIs rather than URLs - names rather than addresses - nothing more than unique identifiers for an XML vocabulary. XML parsers aren't going to go chasing around the internet to dereference them.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

The ribbons I speak of are the replacements for custom menus in Microsoft Access 2007 (All of Office 2007 actually) and I'm taking my first crack at creating a customized ribbon for an application that I'm working on. The ribbons are created through xml and as this is my first time working with it, I'm going through a little learning curve.

Thanks!

Bill