Hi Pierpaolo, You need to set namespace awareness to true on the DocumentBuilderFactory. XML schema validation requires namespace support.
Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pierpaolo Vittorini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/15/2007 12:33:50 PM: > As a couple of dozen of million users, I need to validate an xml document > against an xml schema. > > The (relevant portion of the) XML schema follows: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > targetNamespace="http://www.med.univaq.it/vittorini/xdtfnse"; > xmlns="http://www.med.univaq.it/vittorini/xdtfnse";> > > <xsd:element name="xdtfnse"> > <xsd:complexType> > <xsd:sequence> > ...SEVERAL ELEMENTS HERE... > </xsd:sequence> > </xsd:complexType> > </xsd:element> > > </xsd:schema> > > The (relevant portion of the) XML document follows: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <xdtfnse xmlns="http://www.med.univaq.it/vittorini/xdtfnse"; > targetNamespace="http://www.med.univaq.it/vittorini/xdtfnse"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation= > "http://www.med.univaq.it/vittorini/xdtfnse > xdtfnse.xsd"> > ... CONTENT ... > </xdtfnse> > > Therefore, I wrote a validator in Java (Xerces is xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar): > > try { > SchemaFactory factory = > SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI); > Schema schema = factory.newSchema(new File("xdtfnse.xsd")); > Validator validator = schema.newValidator(); > DocumentBuilder parser = > DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder(); > Document document = parser.parse(new File("doc.xml")); > validator.validate(new DOMSource(document)); > } catch (Exception e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } > > Unfortunately, when I try to validate the above XML document against the > Schema, I get the following error: > > org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of > element 'xdtfnse'. > > Question is: wrong namespace? namespace not correctly specified? > > After several long searches in the web, I could not find any solution. > Please help me or please let me know where to find an answer. > > Kind regards and please apologize if this question already appeared in the > mailing list, but -- again -- all I found/read about this problem didn't > suffice. > > Pierpaolo Vittorini. > > -- > Pierpaolo Vittorini, PhD > Assistant Professor > INF/01 - Computer science > Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health > Via S. Salvatore - Edificio Delta 6 - 67010 L'Aquila fraz. Coppito > ITALY > > E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Personal web page: http://www.med.univaq.it/vittorini > Phone: +39 0862 434650 > Fax: +39 0862 434656 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
