The validator is failing find a namespace for the 'd-ty' prefix. Do you have 
the schema for that namespace added to the schema set?



"George" <George@d...> wrote in message 
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>I am currently developing an xbrl validation software that takes an xml
> instance file and a lot of schemas(xsd files) and  validates it against 
> the
> xsd files.  I am using Visual basic in visual studio 2005. I have managed 
> to
> cycle through the xml file , validate most of the variables, however, i 
> have
> some problems with the namespaces of some attributes.
>
> For example, in my xml instance file,  it says:
>
> <xbrldi:typedMember dimension="d-ty:NationalMarketDimension">
>        <d-ty:NationalMarket>base metals</d-ty:NationalMarket>
>      </xbrldi:typedMember>
>
> In this case, the attribute name is "dimension" and
>                  the attribute value is "d-ty:NationalMarketDimension".
> The problem is that "dimension" variable is in one namespace, and
> "d-ty:NationalMarketDimension" is in another namespace. i execute the
> following code:
>
> validator.ValidateAttribute(reader.name, reader.NamespaceURI,
> reader.valuevalue, schemainfo)
>
> It validates the name "dimension" correctly with the correct namespace,
> however, the value "d-ty:NationalMarketDimension" should be validated 
> using
> the d-ty namespace, which is another x-sd file.
> The error i get is :
> Error Message:The 'dimension' attribute is invalid - The value
> 'd-ty:NationalMarketDimension' is invalid according to its datatype
> 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema:QName' - 'd-ty' is an undeclared 
> namespace.
>
> Can anyone help ?
> Thank you
>
>