Saxon validates all these schemas without trouble, using commands of the
form

java com.saxonica.Validate -t -s http://ruleml.org/0.86/xsd/urhornlog.xsd

It doesn't offer any automatic way of processing all the schemas in the
directory at once, if that's what you were looking for, but it would be easy
enough to script that.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmlschema-dev-request@w... 
> [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w...] On Behalf Of Hirtle, David
> Sent: 01 July 2004 00:30
> To: 'xmlschema-dev@w...'
> Subject: Validators for modularized family of XML Schemas
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've got a modularized family of XML Schemas for a new RuleML release:
> http://www.ruleml.org/0.86/xsd.
> 
> XSV (http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv) accepts them 
> fine, but other
> validators seem not to.  I'd like to confirm that they are 
> valid by using
> other well-known validators/tools such as SQC and XMLSpy">XMLSpy.  
> This may be of
> value to modular schema systems in general, most prominently 
> XHTML. Does
> anyone have experience with validating such modular systems of XSDs?
> 
> One example of validation inconsistencies I found is as follows:
>  
> SQC returns a java.lang.NullPointerException and the following error
> messages (the whole thing is appended below):
> 
> ERROR
> SEVERITY: 2
> ERROR TYPE: 1
> MESSAGE
> unknown exception in Xerces
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> ERROR
>  file = file:C:/RuleML/0.86/xsd/urdatalog.xsd line -1 column -1
> SEVERITY: 1
> ERROR TYPE: 1
> MESSAGE
> null
> 
> Any help in diagnosing these inconsistent validation results would be
> greatly appreciated, as well as pointers to other modularized 
> families of
> schemas.
> 
> David
> 
> ***
> 
> Initializing Schema Quality Checker. Please wait ...
> SchemaQualityChecker has been initialized
> PROCESSING ..\..\0.86\xsd\urdatalog.xsd time : 2004-06-30T19:02:05 ...
> ..\..\0.86\xsd\urdatalog.xsd (file 1 of 1) now being read ...
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at java.util.Arrays$ArrayList.<init>(Unknown Source)
>         at java.util.Arrays.asList(Unknown Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.xml.ecm.schema.impl.AttributeGroupDefImpl.getEffectiveAttribu
> teDecls(Unknown Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.xml.ecm.schema.impl.AttributeGroupDefImpl.getCheckers(Unknown
>  Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.sketch.parser.Util.runCheckersNeverActivateInInteractiveMode(
> Unknown Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.sketch.schemaparser.Redefine_ATTRIBUTEGROUPDEF_ElementHandler
> .mainEndElement(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.parser.S_Dispatcher.endElement(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.parser.S_Dispatcher.endElement(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.parser.S_Dispatcher.endElement(Unknown Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.sketch.schemaparser.XSDParserImpl$SimpleSchemaDocumentHandler
> Impl.endElement(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown
> Source
> )
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.connection.PassThroughFilter.endElement(Unknown
> Source
> )
>         at 
> org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.endElement(Unknown
> Sourc
> e)
>         at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.handleEndElement(Unknown So
> urce)
>         at 
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.endElement(Unknown
> Source)
>         at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(
> Unknown Source)
>         at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContent
> Dispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
>         at
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Un
> known Source)
>         at 
> org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
>         at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.sketch.schemaparser.XSDParserImpl.parseInternalSubsetWithErro
> rChecking(Unknown Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.sketch.schemaparser.XSDParserImpl$ValidationVisitor.parse(Unk
> nown Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.sketch.schemaparser.XSDParserImpl$ValidationVisitor.visitVert
> ex(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.graph.DepthFirstTraversal.traverse(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.graph.DepthFirstTraversal.traverse(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.schemaparser.XSDParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.schemaparser.XSDParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.xml.ecm.schema.impl.OpenCloseManagerImpl.getSchemasLocatedAt(
> Unknown Source)
>         at com.ibm.sketch.utilities.Lint.findErrors(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.util.SchemaQualityChecker.process(Unknown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.util.SchemaQualityChecker.process(Unknown Source)
>         at
> com.ibm.sketch.util.CommandLineApplication.processFromCommandLine(Unk
> nown Source)
>         at 
> com.ibm.sketch.util.SchemaQualityChecker.main(Unknown Source)
> ERROR
> SEVERITY: 2
> ERROR TYPE: 1
> MESSAGE
> unknown exception in Xerces
> 
>    
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> ERROR
>  file = file:C:/RuleML/0.86/xsd/urdatalog.xsd line -1 column -1
> SEVERITY: 1
> ERROR TYPE: 1
> MESSAGE
> null
> 
>    
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> end time = 2004-06-30T19:02:09
> 

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