- From: Guillaume Rousse <rousse@ccr.jussieu.fr>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:26:48 +0100
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Ainsi parlait Jeni Tennison : > Hi Guillaume, > > > Still using xerces-j 1.4.4 > > <persons id="pers"> > > <person id="pers2"> > > <firstName>J. W.</firstName> > > <lastName>Abalos</lastName> > > </person> > > <person id="pers3"> > > <firstName>E.</firstName> > > <lastName>Abonnenc</lastName> > > </person> > > [guillaume@silbermann xml]$ xml-check data/cipa.xml > > [Error] cipa.xml:21:24: Attribute "id" is required and must be specified > > for element type "persons". > > [Error] cipa.xml:21:24: Attribute "id" must be declared for element type > > "persons". > > The error message is quite confusing. The first seems to complains about > > a not found required attribute, the second about a found unwaited > > attribute ! > > The errors aren't very helpful :) But this is just a namespace > problem. In your schema, you have the attribute id declared at the top > level of the schema, and therefore in the 'model' namespace. In your > instance document, you've got an id attribute that isn't qualified > with a prefix, and thus is not in a namespace. > > So the first error message is complaining that you haven't got a > model:id attribute on the person element. > > And the second error message is complaining that you've got an > undeclared id attribute (in no namespace) on the person element. I'm always surprised the by the different treatment of attribute and elements. Thanks for your help ! -- Guillaume Rousse <rousse@ccr.jussieu.fr> GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html
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