I know
it's been over a month since this was asked, but today I finally took some time
and reviewed the rules for keyref validation (there's also been a recent thread
on xmlschema-dev about this very issue).
It
turns out that in a non-intuitive way, XMLSchema is esentially
prohibiting keyrefs from resolving to keys that are duplicated within the
scope of the context element for the keyref. Note that the keys themselves are
ok, since their scopes are disjoint, it's only when they are referenced by a
keyref that the problem occurs.
So
basically, in this instance, Xerces got confused and XmlBeans was right.
Whew!
In
case this is still useful, IMO keyrefs should be declared on the same
element as the corresponding key to ensure intuitive
behavior.
Thanks,
Radu
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Problems with XMLBeans validation
Hi,
The attached schema and matching xml sample show apparent problems with XMLBeans validation. The xml sample validates ok with the latest xerces, as well, the schema seem ok to me.
Please note that the schema may seem a bit odd, with apparently redundant elements, it is the way it is for historical reasons, what is important is that it does appear to be a valid schema in spite of XMLBeans saying that the matching xml sample is invalid.
Can anyone see a problem with my key definitions, or is there indeed a problem with XMLBeans validation?
Thanks, Lawrence
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