RE: Web XML schema validator not working today

I recently discovered an alternative from Alphaworks.  I do a lot of work
with WSDL and was getting tired of manually looking for errors and
extracting the schema in order to use a validation tool.  IBM's Schema
Quality Checker has worked well for my purposes so it may be of some use to
others who rely on web-based solutions... the only drawkback is that the
file being validated must be local, but the tool will resolve all imported
namespaces from URL's.  I had some trouble with the -wsdl option, but the
-emb option has been great for validating schemas embedded in WSDL
documents.

If you're interested, you'll find it at
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmlsqc.

Brenda Bell


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig P Steffen [mailto:csteffen@ncsa.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:11 PM
> To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Web XML schema validator not working today
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> On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:11:48 -0500
> Craig P Steffen <csteffen@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
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> > I've been using your web-based schema evaluator all week on a 
> > communications project at my new job at the NCSA.
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> > I just tried to run it, and there's no response.  My browser keeps 
> > saying "Connecting to www.w3.org".  The w3 site seems to come up ok.
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> Oh bloody hell--user generated error.  What I'd done was 
> typed in a web
> address for a machine that has a DNS entry, but isn't currently turned
> on.  The web form just froze.
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> It might be nice to have your form generate an error message 
> if you tell
> it to retreive a URL from a machine that's not responding; say, in 15
> seconds.
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> Sorry to bother you.
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> Sincerely,
> 
> Craig Steffen
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> -- 
> csteffen@ncsa.uiuc.edu
> current goal: get network access from home
>    via cable modem using a Linux machine
> career goal: be the first Vorlon Time Lord 
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