Yes, I believe I was using the correct flags. I also used
-s -f -v
- Naomi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Feblowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Subject: RE: feature / enhancement request for schema validation
>
>
> Are you using the correct flags with the dom.Counter program?
> Here's what my
> XercVal.bat file looks like:
>
> java dom.Counter -s -f -v %1
>
>
> Code in Counter.java includes the following:
>
> System.err.println(" -v | -V Turn on/off validation.");
> System.err.println(" -s | -S Turn on/off Schema
> validation
> support.");
> System.err.println(" NOTE: Not supported by all
> parsers.");
> System.err.println(" -f | -F Turn on/off Schema full
> checking.");
>
>
> Mark Feblowitz
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naomi Dushay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 2:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: feature / enhancement request for schema validation
>
> In the course of trying to test my schemas with Xerces 2.0.1
> and JDK1.4 from
> the command line, I had "some fun."
>
> It may be that using Xerces from within a java program is not
> so difficult,
> but it doesn't seem outrageous to desire schema validation or
> otherwise use
> Xerces from the command line.
>
> Here's my tale of woe:
>
> (note: I reported the following to "bugzilla" and was told
> this was not a
> bug, and to report it here. So I am doing that. However, I
> am getting off
> this list, so please send any replies to me personally. This
> is basically a
> "lack of features/documentation" report.)
>
>
> I have a suite of XML schemas and I wanted to test if
>
> a) my schemas were valid
> b) my instance documents validated to these schemas
>
> with Xerces 2.0.1.
>
>
> I couldn't find documentation on how to do either a or b with
> Xerces 2.0.1
> from the command line.
>
> For b., a colleague advised me to use the sample program sax.Counter.
>
> I thought it would be a simple matter to run sax.Counter from
> the command
> line
> to accomplish this. I set my path to include (in this order):
>
> Xerces-2_0_1\xercesImpl.jar
> Xerces-2_0_1\xmlParserAPIs.jar
> j2sdk1.4.0\bin
>
> I set my classpath to include:
>
> Xerces-2_0_1\xercesSamples.jar
>
> I used the command:
>
> java sax.Counter -v -s -f (instance doc fname)
>
>
> I got this output:
>
> "error: Unable to instantiate parser
> (org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser)"
>
> This made no sense to me, as I could see that I had included
> the correct
> files
> in my path.
>
>
> As a shot in the dark, I tried to run sax.Counter within
> JBuilder. I was
> able
> to set up a code library for Xerces-2_0_1\XercesImpl.jar I
> discovered that
> I
> needed a separate code library for
> Xerces-2_0_1\xmlParserAPIs.jar, and that
> if
> I included both of these and told JBuilder to use JDK 1.4 as
> the VM, and
> then ran the command above, I got error messages :
>
>
> [Error] oai-identifier.xsd:22:71: e-props-correct.2: Invalid value
> constraint
> value 'oai' in element 'scheme'.
>
> [Error] oai-identifier.xsd:25:72: e-props-correct.2: Invalid value
> constraint
> value ':' in element 'delimiter'.
>
> [Warning] testDBInsertColl.xml:24:16: schema_reference.4:
> Failed to read
> schema
> document 'null', because 1) could not find the document; 2)
> the document
> could
> not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
>
> [Warning] testDBInsertColl.xml:39:46: schema_reference.4:
> Failed to read
> schema
> document 'null', because 1) could not find the document; 2)
> the document
> could
> not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
>
> [Warning] testDBInsertColl.xml:58:16: schema_reference.4:
> Failed to read
> schema
> document 'null', because 1) could not find the document; 2)
> the document
> could
> not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
>
> E:\NSDL\schemas\testDBInsertColl.xml: 2062 ms (70 elems, 18
> attrs, 0 spaces,
>
> 3414 chars)
>
>
> Okay, so now I'm running sax.Counter and plausibly doing some
> sort of schema
> validation, because it's giving me errors on the
> oai-identifier.xsd schema.
>
>
>
> Problems:
>
> 1. My instance document validates fine with my schema suite
> in XSV and in
> topologi. (XMLSpy has a bug, duly reported). But Xerces is
> reporting a
> problem with the oai-identifier schema. Which schema
> validator is correct?
> How can I get more information on this error?
>
> 2. The error messages and warnings don't tell me very much
> at all. Which
> schemas loaded?
> Which schemas is it seeking? How can I better tell what's
> going on so I
> can
> debug my schemas and instance doc?
>
> 3. Why didn't I get this far from the command line?
>
> I managed to answer this one. By some stroke of luck, I had
> a lead to look
> at the
> JAXP FAQ at http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/faq.html. And
> there's a question
> in
> that FAQ "How do I override the JAXP implementation in the JDK 1.4 and
> above?"
> which tells me I need to use the "-D" option with the java
> command. So if I
>
> leave my path and classpath as indicated above, I can use the
> following
> command:
>
> java -Djava.endorsed.dirs=(Xerces-2_0_1_DIR) sax.Counter -v -s -f %1
>
> to do schema validation on an instance document.
>
>
> This seems like a very convoluted, obscure indication of how
> to use Xerces
> 2.0.1 with JDK1.4 for
> schema validation from the command line.
>
>
> These seem like pretty straightforward, desirable features.
>
> Have I missed the appropriate documentation?
>
> - how to check if schemas are valid (still have no known way
> to do this)
> - how to check instance documents against schemas
> - how to get good error reporting on schema validation.
>
>
> Thanks for any helpful insights, steers to documentation, or
> acknowledgement
> that these are desirable, yet missing features (and might be
> addressed in
> the next Xerces release).
>
>
> (Note: I have already sent my instance doc and schemas to
> the folks at
> bugzilla to address my problem number 1 above.)
>
> - Naomi Dushay
> Cornell University Computer Science
>
>
>
>
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