- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:44:50 +0000
- To: Jochen Wiedmann <joe@ispsoft.de>
- CC: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Hi Jochen, > However, my schema validator (xerces) complains > > Cannot find the declaration of element 'object'. > > Can anyone explain what I am doing wrong? I think that what's happening is that Xerces is only loading the schemas that it needs when it needs them. When it comes across an <object> element, it looks for a schema for elements with no namespace, and it doesn't find one since you don't have a xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute. If you add an xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="object.xsd" to your instance document then it stops giving that error. Of course it gives others because the db2:table attribute isn't declared and anyway the <object> element can't have any attribute aside from the id attribute, but those are different problems. (I'd recommend creating an "adaptor schema" with no target namespace that redefines the objectType type so that it can hold attributes from your namespace.) I *think* that Xerces is probably wrong to error here. It's clearly gathering schema components lazily, which is fine, but I think that it should probably look through all the referenced schemas to work out which namespaces it has schemas for rather than raising an error; otherwise you get discrepancies between validators that lazily construct the schemas and those that gather them whole. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/
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