Re: PROV-ISSUE-480: XSD Validator returns schema parser error when reading prov.xsd [XML Serialization]

Hi,
For information, I committed xml.xsd in the same directory.

Luc

On 15/08/12 21:29, Stephan Zednik wrote:
> I committed the change, will change ticket status to 'PENDING REVIEW'.
>
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/rev/954701ee8fe3
>
> I will close the ticket after I get confirmation from the PROV-XML group that it is validating for everyone.
>
> --Stephan
>
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Stephan Zednik <zednis@rpi.edu> wrote:
>
>> Based on the information at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-i18n-bp/#generic-includeinxsd, if we update the schema so that the import of xml.xsd looks like the following
>>
>> <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
>>              schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd"/>
>>
>> the schema should be correct.
>>
>> I made this change and tested it and the online validator at http://xsdvalidation.utilities-online.info validates the schema as OK.
>>
>> I will make the change and commit to hg.
>>
>> --Stephan
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>>> PROV-ISSUE-480: XSD Validator returns schema parser error when reading prov.xsd [XML Serialization]
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/480
>>>
>>> Raised by: Stephan Zednik
>>> On product: XML Serialization
>>>
>>> I tried to validate the following sample xml
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>> <prov:Agent prov:id="ex:e1" xmlns:prov="http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#" xmlns:ex="http://www.example.com/ns/ex/">
>>> 	<prov:type>prov:Person</prov:type>
>>> 	<ex:name>Alice</ex:name>
>>> 	<ex:employee>1234</ex:employee>
>>> </prov:Agent>
>>>
>>> against prov.xsd using xmllint and received the following error response
>>>
>>> zednik$ xmllint --noout --schema prov.xsd ../../examples/eg-40-xml-examples-by-term/xml/Agent.xml
>>> warning: failed to load external entity "xml.xsd"
>>> prov.xsd:32: element import: Schemas parser warning : Element '{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}import': Failed to locate a schema at location 'xml.xsd'. Skipping the import.
>>> prov.xsd:360: element attribute: Schemas parser error : attribute use (unknown), attribute 'ref': The QName value '{http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace}lang' does not resolve to a(n) attribute declaration.
>>> WXS schema prov.xsd failed to compile
>>>
>>> This does not tell me about the correctness of my example XML file against the schema, but seems to imply there are issues with the schema itself.
>>>
>>> I followed this up by trying to use an online XSD Validator to get a second opinion.  I am unsure of what online validators are best so I used one of the top ranked results on Google - http://xsdvalidation.utilities-online.info
>>>
>>> Validation of the XSD failed with the message, 'src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'xml:lang' to a(n) 'attribute declaration' component.'
>>>
>>> I am not very experienced in debugging XML schemas.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Is this an actual issue with the schema or am I just using the wrong tools to validate the XSD?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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