As NASA works toward ISO conformance and the evolution of geospatial standards, it will be necessary to reference ISO XML schemas. The local instance of the most relevant ISO XSDs - 19115/19139 (basic), 19115-2 (extensions) and 19119(service) - are available at: http://ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/schema.xsd (the Eden group).
Additional resources for ISO conformance are included in the below pages. Note the Sample XML Schema Association page for an example of calling the NOAA repository.