Hi Windy, If you want annotations to be laxly validated when the schema is loaded you could try setting the "validate-annotations" feature [1] to true. Xerces will use whatever declarations that are available to validate their content.
Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/features.html#validate-annotations Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org "Windchime" <w...@zahuta.com> wrote on 05/04/2009 09:30:12 PM: > I am building a grammar pool and validating xml instances. All of > this works well except that the schema ?appinfo? elements are not > getting laxly validated (that is, they don?t seem to be validated at > all). I can make this validate correctly by adding the XML Schema > for Schema into the grammar pool, but this just seems wrong (and > takes up a noticeable chunk of CPU)?is there a better way? > > Thanks, > > Windy