This does seem to work fine going directly to Xerces without JDOM. I
am not sure why since I set the parser to Xerces -- I will have to do
some research.

Do you know how I can change the default from lax validation of
non-native attributes to active?

In addition, it takes a lot longer to parse an XML Schema document
based on XML Schema. I plan to look at Schema compilers. On the
surface it looks like jaxp 1.3 may offer some help but would tie me to
a 1.5 JRE. It looks like RelaxNG has something I could use but I don't
know whether RelaxNG supports annotations/non-native attributes. Does
anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks,

David Morris

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:56:09 -0500, Priscilla Walmsley
<priscilla@w...> wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I have been able to get this to work using Xerces, by adding the schema for
> schemas, as you were trying to do. For example:
> 
> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>            xmlns:doc="http://example.org/doc"
>            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>            xsi:schemaLocation="http://example.org/doc example0606.xsd
>                               http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
> http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd">
>  <xsd:element  name="test" type="xsd:integer"
>                doc:description="This element represents a product."/>
> </xsd:schema>
> 
> Perhaps the problem was that when you set the external schema location
> property, you only used the schema location, when it should be target
> namespace, followed by whitespace, followed by the schema location.
> 
> I will update example in the book to include the reference to the schema for
> schemas, and add it to the errata.  Also note that some processors have
> problems validating schemas against the schema for schemas, because there
> are a few glitches in it. At least there were at one time - I haven't looked
> at it very recently.
> 
> You can also use non-native attributes in your schemas without validating
> them, though, because by default they are laxly validated.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> Priscilla
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Priscilla Walmsley             priscilla@w...
> Author, Definitive XML Schema     (Prentice Hall PTR)
> -----------------------------------------------------  
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xmlschema-dev-request@w...
> > [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w...] On Behalf Of David Morris
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 1:32 AM
> > To: xmlschema-dev@w...
> > Subject: Using non-native attributes
> >
> >
> > I am trying to use a non-native schema attribute and it doesn't seem
> > to work how I thought it would. The only reference with substance I
> > can find on the subject is Priscilla Walmsley's book Definitive XML
> > Schema. I am trying to annotate a schema with some custom attributes
> > to validate an idea and have run into some trouble.
> >
> > When I edit an XML Schema using WebSphere Development Studio's (WDS)
> > Schema editor, I get an error "Unknown attribute xxx:yyy". After a lot
> > of trial and error, I downloaded a similar example from the Definitive
> > XML Schema Web site. That example (chapter 6 5/6) fails with the same
> > error (and a missing type). At this point, I have to believe that WDS
> > is unable to work with non-native attributes.
> >
> > Here is the example XML Document and XML Schema:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> >         xmlns:doc="http://example.org/doc"
> >         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> >         xsi:schemaLocation="http://example.org/doc example0606.xsd">
> >    <xsd:element name="product" type="xsd:string"
> >             doc:description="This element represents a product."/>
> > </xsd:schema>
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> >         xmlns="http://example.org/doc"
> >         targetNamespace="http://example.org/doc">
> >    <xsd:attribute name="description" type="xsd:string"/>
> > </xsd:schema>
> >
> > The next thing I tried was to use a Java program to programatically
> > validate this Schema with the XML Schema Schema. I receive the
> > fillowing "Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot
> > find the declaration of element 'xsd:schema'." I can use this same
> > program to validate conventional XML documents against an XML Schema
> > and it works fine. I am using Xerces 1.6.2 and JDOM 1.0.  I have tried
> > using an entity resolver to pick up a local copy of XMLSchema.xsd as
> > well as from the URL: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd.
> >
> > Here is some of the code:
> >
> >        SAXBuilder builder =
> >            new
> > SAXBuilder("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser", true);
> >      builder.setEntityResolver(new SchemaLoader());
> >        builder.setFeature(
> >            "http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema",
> >            true);
> >        builder.setProperty(
> >
> > "http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-schemaLocation",
> >            "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd");
> >        Document doc = builder.build(xmlFile);
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> >
> >
> 
>

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