Re: Validating Schemas With Xerces

Well after upgrading to Xerces 2.0.0 beta 4 and some fiddling with CLASSPATHs,
I got it to work.

Thanks for the help.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Feblowitz" <mfeblowitz@frictionless.com>
To: "'Dare Obasanjo'" <kpako@yahoo.com>
Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 11:02 AM
Subject: RE: Validating Schemas With Xerces


> I tried validating the xsd that you sent and also an xml document  instance
> (generated by XML Spy). Both validated fine in both MSXML and Xerces
> 2.0.0B4.
>
> You may want to try invoking Xerces on the command line to test whether your
> java code is incorrect:
>
> java  dom.Counter -s -f TestSw.xml
>
> dom.Counter is one of the simple examples included with Xerces; the -s flag
> turns on schema validation; the -f says turn on full schema validation.
>
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:kpako@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 4:36 PM
> To: Tom Preston; xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Validating Schemas With Xerces
>
> That didn't help, the schema file was the following one
>
> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xmlns:ns="urn:mynamespace"  targetNamespace="urn:mynamespace"
> elementFormDefault="qualified" >
> <xsd:element name="switch">
>            <xsd:complexType>
>                         <xsd:sequence>
>                                     <xsd:element name="value" minOccurs="2"
> maxOccurs="2">
>                                                <xsd:simpleType>
>                                                            <xsd:restriction
> base="xsd:string">
>
> <xsd:enumeration value="on" />
>
> <xsd:enumeration value="off" />
>
> </xsd:restriction>
>                                                </xsd:simpleType>
>                                     </xsd:element>
>                         </xsd:sequence>
>             </xsd:complexType>
>             <xsd:unique name="uni">
>                         <xsd:selector xpath="ns:switch" />
>                         <xsd:field xpath="ns:value" />
>             </xsd:unique>
> </xsd:element>
> </xsd:schema>
>
> I received a private email that mentioned that Xerces 1.4.4 has difficulty
> validating schemas and I should try 2.0.0B4
> --
> THINGS TO DO IF I BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD #26
> No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of
> machinery which is completely indestructible except for one small and
> virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Preston" <tpreston@amadeusboston.com>
> To: "Dare Obasanjo" <kpako@yahoo.com>; <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:26 AM
> Subject: RE: Validating Schemas With Xerces
>
>
> > It would be easier to tell what the problem was if .xml file was
> > included....
> >
> > I just went to http://www.xml-schema.com/examples/ ... made a new
> directory:
> > c:\temp\144 and into that directory I downloaded  SchemaValidate.java
> > (http://www.xml-schema.com/examples/schema/SchemaValidate.java),
> > editor.xml (http://www.xml-schema.com/examples/schema/editor.xml),
> > buildSchemaValidate144.bat
> > (http://www.xml-schema.com/examples/schema/buildSchemaValidate144.bat),
> > runSchemaValidate144.bat
> > (http://www.xml-schema.com/examples/schema/runSchemaValidate144.bat)
> >
> > I made sure that buildSchemaValidate144.bat was pointing to my 144 version
> > of xerces.jar.
> > I ran buildSchemaValidate144.bat and which gave me
> > c:\temp\144\SchemaValidate.class
> > I made sure that runSchemaValidate144.bat pointed to my 144 version of
> > xerces.jar and was going to process editor.xml.
> > I ran runSchemaValidate144.bat and there was almost no output (meaning all
> > validated).
> >
> > If you download editorbad.xml you can see output when problem with
> instance
> > document.
> >
> > I had some problems with this stuff when I was using a system classpath
> > because I was having 144 vs 200 compat problems (build with 144 didn't
> like
> > to run with 200 if I recall properly).  Use of batch files makes classpath
> > explicit.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:kpako@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:49 PM
> > To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> > Subject: Validating Schemas With Xerces
> >
> >
> > All over the web I have seen rumors that claim that one can validate
> schemas
> > with Xerces-J and so far I have been unable to successfully get this
> working
> > using Xerces-J 1.4.4. Whenever I try to validate a schema[0] with Xerces-J
> > using sample code obtained from www.xml-schema.com [1], I get the
> following
> > wonderful set of errors
> >
> > Error:  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: General Schema Error: Grammar with
> > uri
> > 2:
> >  http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema , can not found.
> > Error:  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "schema" must be
> > declared.
> > Error:  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "annotation" must be
> > declare
> > d.
> > Error:  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "documentation" must
> be
> > decl
> > ared.
> > Error:  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "element" must be
> > declared.
> > Error:  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "element" must be
> > declared.
> > Error:  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "complexType" must be
> > declared
> > *** rest of error message snipped ***
> >
> > Actually I lied, I commented out the following line of code
> >
> >
> >
> parser.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema-full-che
> > ck
> > ing",true);
> >
> > because it threw a SAXNotRecognizedException. I also get similar errors if
> I
> > use the sax.SAXCount class from the xercesSamples.jar file with validation
> > turned on.
> >
> > [0] Including po.xsd from the the XML Schema Primer
> > [1] http://www.xml-schema.com/examples/schema/SchemaValidate.java
> >
> > --
> > THINGS TO DO IF I BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD #26
> > No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of
> > machinery which is completely indestructible except for one small and
> > virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot.
> >
> >
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