David, You should specify your governing schema in an instance document (as opposed to code):
<root_node xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation = "file:///pathname/myPlatform.xsd"> where root_node is the name of your root element in myPlatform.xsd. Note the 3 slashes after file:, very important. Ed -----Original Message----- From: David Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Validating with XML Schema using local schema files I'm trying to parse an XML document (root is called "myPlatform") against a locally controlled schema file (.xsd). What I'm not sure, is how to specify the schema files to use since the main schema does an include of another schema (<xs:include schemaLocation="basicTypes.xsd"/>) The XML is described in a schema file called platform.xsd, which includes the basicTypes.xsd. I've set these features (via JDOM, but it's using Xerces under the hood): SAXBuilder saxBuilder = new SAXBuilder(true); // validate saxBuilder.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation",true); saxBuilder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema",tru e); saxBuilder.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-sch emaLocation","file:///home/xml/schema/basicTypes.xsd file:///home/xml/schema/platform.xsd"); I've tried the schemaLocations by not specifying the "file://" prefix and I get the same error: Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'myPlatform'. at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.startElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDispatcher.scanRoot ElementHook(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatc her.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:455) I'm sure the files are okay because they can be validated fine using XMLSPY. I'm not just not sure how to tell the parser to use the locally defined schema files. Thanks, David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
