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RE: What am I overlooking...?

• To: "'Atchley, John'" <John.Atchley@f...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: What am I overlooking...?
• From: "Priscilla Walmsley" <priscilla@w...>
• Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:45:42 -0500
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• Reply-to: <priscilla@w...>

Hi John,

My guess is that the target namespace of your schema does not match the
namespace in your instance document.  They must match _exactly_.

XSV is dereferencing the namespace because it is looking for a schema
document with the correct target namespace.  If it can't find an appropriate
schema document via either the xsi:schemaLocation attribute or a command
line parameter, it dereferences the namespace as a last resort.  There is
nothing illegal about this - processors are not required to dereference the
namespace, but they are not forbidden from doing so either.

Also, it looks like you are using a fairly old version of XSV.  I would
upgrade.

Hope that helps,
Priscilla

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Atchley, John [mailto:John.Atchley@f...]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:05 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  What am I overlooking...?
>
>
> Has anyone used XSV successfully?  It appears to be treating
> namespace URIs
> as URLs, and ignoring Schema-instance extensions, or am I
> just even stupider
> than I look?
>
> Here's the header of my instance document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <mydoc
> 	xmlns="http://notarealurl.com/sourcedata/2002_01_31"
> 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> 	xsi:schemaLocation="http://notarealurl.com/sourcedata/2002_01_31
> file:gensrcschema.xsd">
>
> The file gensrcschema.xsd exists in the same folder as my
> instance document.
>
> Here's the output from XSV:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsv docElt='{http://notarealurl.com/sourcedata/2002_01_31}mydoc'
> instanceAssessed='true' instanceErrors='0' nsURIDeref='success'
> schemaErrors='0' schemaLocs='' target='file:/C:/Program
> Files/XSV/testschema.xml' validation='lax' version='XSV 1.173/1.80 of
> 2000/10/18 15:54:58' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/05/xsv'>
> <importAttempt URI='http://notarealurl.com/sourcedata/2002_01_31'
> namespace='http://notarealurl.com/sourcedata/2002_01_31'
> outcome='failure'/>
> <notASchema filename='http://notarealurl.com/sourcedata/2002_01_31'/>
> <XMLMessages>
> Error: can't find address for host "notarealurl.com" in http URL
> "http://notarealurl.com/sourcedata/2002_01_31"
> </XMLMessages>
> </xsv>
>
> My understanding is that
> "xmlns=http://notarealurl.com/sourcdata/2002_01_31"
> should _never_ be interpretted by an XML parser as a
> reference to an object
> but merely as an URI, even in the absence of
> xsi:schemaLocation.  However,
> as you can see from the above error output XSV is saying that
> it is "not a
> schema filename."
>
> So, what gives?  Is my understanding of URIs completely
> faulty, or is XSV
> doing a no-no here?
>
> If I haven't made an error, and XSV is mucked up, where does
> one find a
> (preferably free) W3C schema validator that is actually conformant and
> useful?
>
> John Atchley
> Senior Software Analyst
> Engineering and Design, Courseware Support
> FlightSafety International, Inc.
> mailto:John.Atchley@F...
>
>
>
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