Hi, I'm using Xerces-J 2.11.0 (XML Schema 1.1) Beta and may have run into a possible issue with the library:
I have an XML file with the following: <Product_Collection xmlns="http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/pds/v1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mvn="http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/mission/mvn/v1" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/pds/v1 http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/pds/v1/PDS4_PDS_1400.xsd http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/mission/mvn/v1 http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/mvn/v1/PDS4_MVN_1011.xsd "> … <Mission_Area> <MAVEN xmlns="http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/mvn/v1"> <mission_phase_name>Transition</mission_phase_name> <mission_phase_name>Prime Mission</mission_phase_name> </MAVEN> </Mission_Area> … The XML file references a schema, PDS4_MVN_1011.xsd, with the following content: <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/mvn/v1" xmlns:mvn="http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/mvn/v1" xmlns:pds="http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/pds/v1" elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified" version="1.0.1.1"> ... <xs:element name="MAVEN" type="mvn:MAVEN"> </xs:element> The first test I ran, I wanted to validate the XML file against the schemas declared in its label. So, I set up the Schema object as follows: schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema/v1.1"); Schema schema = schemaFactory.newSchema(); I got an expected error when validating the XML file: ERROR line 65, 60: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'MAVEN'. Note that the target namespace value in the XSD, http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/mvn/v1 is different from the target namespace in the SchemaLocation of the XML: http://pds.nasa.gov/pds4/mission/mvn/v1 For the second test, I simply downloaded the schemas listed in the XML file and explicitly passed them into the SchemaFactory to create a Schema object: schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema/v1.1"); Schema schema = schemaFactory.newSchema(schemaSources); Then, when I validated the XML file again, I got no errors. I would have expected the 2nd test to produce an error just like the first. I wanted to know if anyone on this list has thoughts on this. Thanks, Mike