Re: DTD error in XSV?

Liz Castro <lcastro@cookwood.com> writes:

> Aargh. I don't know why those stupid attachments happen. Sorry! Here's one
> last try:
> 
> I just started using the new version of XSV, and I get a strange error I
> never used to get with the old version:
> 
> Couldn't open file /usr/local/Jigsaw/Jigsaw/WWW/cgi-bin/XMLSchema.dtd: No
> such file or directory
> /usr/local/Jigsaw/Jigsaw/WWW/cgi-bin/XMLSchema.dtd: No such file or directory
> Error: Couldn't open dtd entity
> file:///usr/local/Jigsaw/Jigsaw/WWW/cgi-bin/XMLSchema.dtd
>  in entity "<string>" defined in <unknown>
> Warning: Root element name xsd:schema not declared
>  (detected at end of prolog of document
> http://www.cookwood.com/ns/end_species/end_species.xsd)
> Warning: Start tag for undeclared element xsd:schema
>  in unnamed entity at line 2 char 12 of
> http://www.cookwood.com/ns/end_species/end_species.xsd

Sorry, serious bug, now fixed, you should get some useful error
messages now.

> Why does XSV care if I use a DTD or not? And why is it looking for this
> XMLSchema.dtd file?
>
> I don't want to deal with DTDs here, I just want to know if my instance is
> schema valid.

XSV uses the DTD for schema documents as a first-pass check on your
schema, to avoid doing all that work in ad-hoc code in the validator,
but this is an implementation choice.  Your instance can't be
validated unless the schema you provide is a real schema, after all.

ht
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Received on Saturday, 4 November 2000 06:11:19 UTC