Casper B wrote:

> I have trouble constructing an .xsd to validate the following simple XML:
> 
> ------
> <?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <FormatSpec FormatName="Test" Encoding="ISO-8859-1" TableName="RecordSet"
> xmlns="http://www.xyz.com"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="FormatSpec.xsd">

schemaLocation takes at list of white space separated namespaceURIs and 
schema URIs e.g.
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.xyz.com FormatSpec.xsd"

>  <RowSpec Iterations="1">
>   <ColSpec BeginOffset="0" EndOffset="8" RegExMatch="udgstart"/>
>  </RowSpec>
> 
>  <RowSpec RowName="Record">
>   <ColSpec BeginOffset="0" EndOffset="12" ColName="BuildingId"/>
>   <ColSpec BeginOffset="17" EndOffset="21" ColName="StartDateYear"/>
>   <ColSpec BeginOffset="55" EndOffset="80" Trim="true" ColName="Name"/>
>  </RowSpec>
> </FormatSpec>
> ------
> 
> My parser (oracle v2 for Java) only seems to validate the top element 
> and never any attributtes even though I (think) I specify this with the 
> following .xsd schema:
> 
> ------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
> 
> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>             xmlns="http://www.xyz.com"
>             targetNamespace="http://www.xyz.com"
>             elementFormDefault="qualified" 
> attributeFormDefault="qualified">

Your attributes above are all unqualified (in no namespace) so here you 
should use
   attributeFormDefault="unqualified"


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