XML Spy is not very with respect to XML validations. My Java Application gave an error for Invalide UTF-8 character but XML Spy accepted those characters even though they were not valid UTF-8 characters.
Shekhar Karani Datamatics Technologies Ltd. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shital Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 7:49 PM Subject: RE: Constraints in Schema > > I also had problem validating my xml file against schema. That was a > namespace problem. The Java application would give me lot of validation > errors but XML Spy would simply validate it. That surprises me too!!!! > > -Shital Joshi > MFG Systems > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jaladurgam, Ramana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 10:08 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Constraints in Schema > > > Hello Rahul, > Thanks for the solution. > I have changed the default namespace to pfx namespace and parser is > validating now. > But, when I used the "no namespace" version in XML Spy it works fine? > Any ideas? > > Regards, > Ramana.JV. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rahul Srivastava [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 4:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Constraints in Schema > > > Hi Ramana, > > The XPath expression in your Schema, for the selector, is something like: > <xsd:selector xpath="Axis"/> > > This expression tries to find an element - Axis, with null namespace, but, > the Axis element you have defined in your Schema, lies in > http://www.pearson.com/assessments/MTx namespace. Hence, the Identity > Constraints are not being applied. > > You might think, that you have defined a default namespace at the schema > element as, xmlns="http://www.pearson.com/assessments/MTx";, and thus, things > should work. But things don't work this way. > See: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests > [ > A QName in the node test is expanded into an expanded-name using the > namespace declarations from the expression context. This is the same way > expansion is done for element type names in start and end-tags except that > the default namespace declared with xmlns is not used: if the QName does not > have a prefix, then the namespace URI is null (this is the same way > attribute names are expanded). It is an error if the QName has a prefix for > which there is no namespace declaration in the expression context. ] > > To make your Identity Constraints work, you must explicitly prefix the > elements in the XPath expression for the selector: <xsd:selector > xpath="pfx:Axis"/> where, pfx resolves to > http://www.pearson.com/assessments/MTx. > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > Rahul. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jaladurgam, Ramana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 9:04 PM > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: RE: Constraints in Schema > > > > > > Attached are the xml and xsd files. > > > > I am using "java sax.Counter -v -s -f MTxGD.xml" to test for validation. > > > Regards, > Ramana.JV. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sandy > Gao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 10:32 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Constraints in Schema > > > > Xerces does support Identity Constraint. But there is always a > > possibility > of bug. :-) > > Could you post your xml/xsd files? And how > are you invoking the parser? > > Cheers, > Sandy Gao > Software > Developer, IBM Canada > (1-905) 413-3255 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > "Jaladurgam, Ramana" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > > "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > earson.com> cc: > > > > Subject: > > Constraints in > > Schema > > 05/01/2003 11:26 AM > > > > Please respond to > > > > xerces-j-user > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello Group, > > I have an XML Schema that has unique constraint in it. > > But Xerces is not validating the XML against this constraints. > > Does, Xerces is able to handle unique/relationship constraints that are > > defined using Xpath. > > I know that someone might have already posted this. 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