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Re: Different Validation in XML Spy 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4

• To: "Winchel 'Todd' Vincent III" <winchel@m...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Different Validation in XML Spy 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4
• From: "George Cristian Bina" <george@s...>
• Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:33:04 +0300
• References: <013401c206be$9a5bb710$c35c8990@wtviiilt02>

Hi

You can try oXygen: http://oxygen.sync.ro/ . It is based on Xerces2 Java.

Best regards,
 George


----- Original Message -----
From: "Winchel 'Todd' Vincent III" <winchel@m...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 6:11 AM
Subject:  Different Validation in XML Spy 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4


> Has anyone else come across problems with XML Spy 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 such
as
> those described below?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd
>
> =========================
>
> I have attempted to validate the xml instance with the following schema
> (below) in:
>
> MSXML 4.0 (successfully)
> MSXML 4.0 SP1 (successfully)
> XML Spy 4.2 (successfully)
> XML Spy 4.3 (*un*successfully)
> XML Spy 4.4 (*un*successfully)
>
> <snip/>
>
> In any case, validation in the products above are inconsistent.  I have
not
> tried anything else.  I hope that XML Spy 4.3 and 4.4 simply have a bug,
in
> which case, I also hope the bug will be fixed in a future version.
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd
>
> ======================
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsd:schema targetNamespace="urn:a"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="urn:a"
> elementFormDefault="qualified">
>  <xsd:complexType name="a" mixed="true">
>   <xsd:choice>
>    <xsd:group ref="g1" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>   </xsd:choice>
>  </xsd:complexType>
>  <xsd:group name="g1">
>   <xsd:choice>
>    <xsd:group ref="g2"/>
>   </xsd:choice>
>  </xsd:group>
>  <xsd:group name="g2">
>   <xsd:choice>
>    <xsd:element ref="x" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>    <xsd:element ref="y" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>   </xsd:choice>
>  </xsd:group>
>  <xsd:element name="a" type="a"/>
>  <xsd:element name="y" type="xsd:string"/>
>  <xsd:element name="x" type="xsd:string"/>
> </xsd:schema>
>
> =======================================
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <a xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="urn:a"
> xsi:schemaLocation="urn:a a2.xsd">
>  <x>content</x>
>  <y>content</y>
>  content <y/>
>  <y>content</y>content <y/>
>  <y>content</y>content<y/>
>  <y>content</y>
>  <y/>
> </a>
>
> ==========================================
>
> Hi,
>
> Matteo Garutti wrote:
>
> > Hi !
> > Let's take a look at the following example: we have a BaseLibrary schema
> in
> > which we have defined a complex type named "BaseType" which is a simple
> > extension of xs:string; in another schema, FinalSchema.xsd, we have
> defined
> > 2 elements which derives by restriction from the "BaseType"; the first
> > element "child_1" fixes the length to two chars, the second one
"child_2"
> > fixes the length to four chars. Eventually we created an XML document
> based
> > on FinalSchema.xsd, and we set the content of "child_1" and "child_2"
> nodes
> > according to their types as defined in the schema.
> > Then, we have tried to validate this XML document using 4 different XML
> > engines and, unfortunately, we got different results:
> >
> > (1) XML Spy 4.2                                         --> Ok, the
> document
> > is valid
> > (2) Microsoft .NET ValidatingReader Object      --> Ok, the document is
> > valid
> > (2) XML Spy 4.3                                         --> Error, value
> > does not macth facet length="4" in element dn:child_1
> > (4) XML Spy 4.4                                 --> Error, value does
not
> > macth facet length="4" in element dn:child_1
> >
> > It seems that XML Spy (4.3 - 4.4) recognizes only the last restriction
of
> > the complex type "BaseType".
> > It's somewhat stange that XML Spy changed its behaviour in its two last
> > releases, isn't it ?
> > Which is the right behaviour according to W3C standard ??
>
> Your schema looks fine to me so I would suggest that a bug was introduced
in
> the
> later versions of XML Spy.
>
> Cheers,
> /Eddie
>
> [From the original email . . . ]
>
> ---------------
> BaseLibrary.xsd
> ---------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xs:schema targetNamespace="urn:BaseNamespace"
xmlns:mq="urn:BaseNamespace"
> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified"
> attributeFormDefault="qualified">
> <xs:complexType name="BaseType">
> <xs:simpleContent>
> <xs:extension base="xs:string"/>
> </xs:simpleContent>
> </xs:complexType>
> </xs:schema>
>
> ----------------
> FinalSchema.xsd
> ----------------
> <xs:schema targetNamespace="urn:DerivedNamespace"
> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:bn="urn:BaseNamespace"
> elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="qualified">
> <xs:import namespace="urn:BaseNamespace"
> schemaLocation="BaseLibrary.xsd"/>
> <xs:element name="root">
> <xs:complexType>
> <xs:sequence>
> <xs:element name="parent">
> <xs:complexType>
> <xs:sequence>
> <xs:element
> name="child_1">
>
> <xs:complexType>
>
> <xs:simpleContent>
>
> <xs:restriction base="bn:BaseType">
>
> <xs:length value="2"/>
>
> </xs:restriction>
>
> </xs:simpleContent>
>
> </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> <xs:element
> name="child_2">
>
> <xs:complexType>
>
> <xs:simpleContent>
>
> <xs:restriction base="bn:BaseType">
>
> <xs:length value="4"/>
>
> </xs:restriction>
>
> </xs:simpleContent>
>
> </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> </xs:sequence>
> </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> </xs:sequence>
> </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> </xs:schema>
>
> ------------------
> FinalDocument.xml
> ------------------
> <dn:root xmlns:dn="urn:DerivedNamespace" xmlns:bn="urn:BaseNamespace"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="urn:DerivedNamespace FinalSchema.xsd">
> <dn:parent>
> <dn:child_1>12</dn:child_1>
> <dn:child_2>1234</dn:child_2>
> </dn:parent>
> </dn:root>
>
>
>
>
>
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