Harald Haspl writes:

> Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>> XSV is happy with your instance. . .
>
> The schema is correct, but I would like the parser to be more precisely in
> indicating an error in the XML-File.
>
> When inserting an item in the Data-section which has no reference value in
> the above section:
> <Item color="yellow"></Item>
>
> Xerces points me to the end of the root-element[1]. Isn't it possible to
> find out that the errornous element is at line 14?

XSV does give the error message you want [1], but note that Xerces is not
being unreasonable, the error isn't detected untell then end of the
scope of the keyref.

ht

[1]
<invalid char="9" code="cvc-identity-constraint.2.3.2" line="13"
    resource="file:///.../data1.xml">no key in {None}:TypeId
                                      for yellow</invalid>
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