Validating XML against Schema.

[Siva shanmugam]

I am trying to validate an xml file against a schema.
Schema file mySchema.xsd
------ ---- ------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://mySpace.com" xmlns="http://mySpace.com">
<xs:element name="Parent">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Child"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xsd:schema>
Xml File
--------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Parent xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://mySpace.com mySchema.xsd"
xmlns="http://mySpace.com">
<Child/>
</Parent>
While parsing the xml file using xerces DOM i am getting the following error.
Error General Schema Error: Grammar with uri 2: http://mySpace.com , can not found.
Error Element type "Parent" must be declared.
Error Element type "Child" must be declared.

I think the namespace which is refered in xml file is not understood by the parser.
Can anyone tell me, how can i make the parser to understand the Schema ?

[Balaji Loganathan]

You can use the parser.setPropertry
like
parser.setProperty(
"http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-schemaLocation",
"http://www.example.com/quote.html quotations.xsd");
I found this at page 27 of pdf tutorial at ibm tutorial on schema validation

[Siva shanmugam]

I have tried the above code.But the response is the same.

[Dan Drillich]

Siva,
Here is a namespaceless working version.

mySpace.xsd -
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:element name="Parent">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="Child"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>
mySpace.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Parent xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="mySpace.xsd" >
<Child/>
</Parent>
  

Do you want it with namespaces?
Cheers,
Dan

[Dan Drillich]

With namespaces -

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Parent xmlns="http://mySpace.com"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://mySpace.com mySpace.xsd">
<Child/>
</Parent>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
elementFormDefault="qualified" 
targetNamespace="http://mySpace.com">
<xsd:element name="Parent">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="Child"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>
  

[ September 26, 2002: Message edited by: Dan Drillich ]

[Jayadev Pulaparty]

Siva,
Can you please give the DOM parser code you've tried. I'm trying to do the "setProperty" on the parser (which is the document builder object). It says that there is no such method defined for this class. I want to see exactly what is happening with my setup.
Thanks.

[Jayadev Pulaparty]

Dan,
Can you please provide me the DOM code wherein you are setting the validation information on the parser?
Thanks.

[Jayadev Pulaparty]

Got the stuff from the tutorial; I'll check out the thing mentioned above and then jump back into the discussion

[Jayadev Pulaparty]

Please try this out -
Schema File -
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
targetNamespace="http://mySpace.com" xmlns="http://mySpace.com">
<xsd:element name="Parent">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="Child"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>
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Changed the stuff above from xs: to xsd: for some of the elements.
XML File ---
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<test arent xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://mySpace.com mySchema.xsd"
xmlns:test="http://mySpace.com">
<Child/>
</test arent>
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We need to explicity place the Parent element in the namespace as the elementFormDefault="unqualified" by default. This means that the inner elements should not be namespace qualified in the instance documents.
Little relevant portion of the java code -
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DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", true);
parser.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", true);
parser.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-schemaLocation",
"http://mySpace.com mySchema.xsd");
parser.parse("dd.xml");
doc = parser.getDocument();
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I'm using Roger's xsv validator.