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This validation is of marginal use.
Consider this supposedly equal document.
<x:Root xmlns:x="http://www.used.org">
<x:child>true</x:child>
</x:Root>
It will fail your DTD validation.
David A. Lee
dlee@calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org
On 9/22/2010 10:21 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> David Carlisle suggested validating an XML document against a DTD as a mechanism for detecting unused namespaces. I tried it. It works well.
>
> I created this DTD:
>
> <!ELEMENT Root (child)>
> <!ATTLIST Root
> xmlns CDATA #FIXED 'http://www.used.org'>
>
> <!ELEMENT child (#PCDATA)>
> <!ATTLIST child
> xmlns CDATA #FIXED 'http://www.used.org'>
>
>
> This XML document contains no unused namespaces:
>
> -----------------------------------
> <Root xmlns="http://www.used.org">
>
> <child>true</child>
>
> </Root>
> -----------------------------------
>
> It validates fine.
>
>
> Then I added an unused namespace:
>
> -----------------------------------
> <Root xmlns="http://www.used.org"
> xmlns:foo="blah">
>
> <child>true</child>
>
> </Root>
> -----------------------------------
>
> Validation fails. Good! Validation detected the unused namespace.
>
>
> Conversely, this XML Schema does not detect the unused namespace:
>
> <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> targetNamespace="http://www.used.org"
> elementFormDefault="qualified">
>
> <element name="Root">
> <complexType>
> <sequence>
> <element name="child" type="boolean" />
> </sequence>
> </complexType>
> </element>
>
> </schema>
>
> Validation succeeds with or without the unused namespace.
>
>
> Conclusion: it appears that one mechanism for detecting unused namespaces in an XML document is to validate it against a DTD. Can anyone think of a case where a DTD would not detect an unused namespace?
>
> /Roger
>
>
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