XML schema fails to load

Greetings,

I have an XSD file which validates in the W3C schema validator http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv but Schema object fails to instantiate from it.

SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
Schema schema = factory.newSchema(new File("conf/configuration.xsd"));

The newSchema method generates SAXException

Exception in thread "main" org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: s4s-att-not-allowed: Attribute 'name' cannot appear in element 'element'.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:131)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:384)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.reportSchemaErr(XSDHandler.java:2537)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.reportSchemaError(XSDHandler.java:2528)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSAttributeChecker.reportSchemaError(XSAttributeChecker.java:1622)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSAttributeChecker.checkAttributes(XSAttributeChecker.java:1140)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSAttributeChecker.checkAttributes(XSAttributeChecker.java:996)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSDElementTraverser.traverseLocal(XSDElementTraverser.java:151)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.traverseLocalElements(XSDHandler.java:2049)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.parseSchema(XSDHandler.java:582)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadSchema(XMLSchemaLoader.java:552)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(XMLSchemaLoader.java:519)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(XMLSchemaLoader.java:485)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory.newSchema(XMLSchemaFactory.java:210)
at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:594)
at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:610)
at axm.tool.user.test.main(test.java:20)

The XSD document is below. I'm completely baffled. Any suggestions? TIA

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns="configuration"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
targetNamespace="configuration"
elementFormDefault="qualified">

<xs:element name="configuration">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="property" ref="property" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

<xs:element name="property">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:choice>
<xs:element name="value" ref="scalar" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:element name="list" ref="list" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:element name="map" ref="map" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
</xs:choice>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

<xs:element name="map">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="entry" type="EntryType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element name="default" type="EntryType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

<xs:element name="list">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="item" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element name="default" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

<xs:complexType name="EntryType">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="key" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:element name="value" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

<xs:element name="scalar">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="value" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:element name="default" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>

You should either use type declarations like this:

or leave out the name-attribute when using the ref-attribute:

Thank you, Andreas. I stumbled upon using named type rather that ref solution on my own last night. Given than the W3C verifier did not report any errors, should this be considered as a bug?

-a