Re: simple xml question

[Jeff Rafter <jeffrafter@earthlink.net>]

Howard,

It seems that everyone is too busy with "a simple guy with a simple problem"
to actually answer genuine-- read: non-academic-- problems in the XML
community.

Based on your original mail I am going to *guess* you are using Microsoft's
XML parser as you alluded to "XMLDOM"-- I could be wrong though.  Yes,
loading your document and schema into this parser will work-- however MSXML
does not support "W3C XML Schemas" it supports XDR (XML Data, reduced).  So
it will not treat the schema as a schema per se and can do no validation.

If you would like to use W3C XML Schemas, as you noted in the second mail,
you will have to use a different parser, and remember that the XML Schema
spec. is still under development.  Finding parsers which support it is tough
because people are waiting for it to be finished-- your best bets are to use
XSV [1] in Python or Xerces [2] in Java or the Oracle Schema Validator [3]
in Java.

If you can give me some more specifics (language and platform) I can be of
more help.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2000/09/webdata/xsv
[2] http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j
[3] http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml

for more check:

http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema#tools

Good luck,
Jeff Rafter
Defined Systems

----- Original Message -----
From: <Howard.Kidd@syntegra.bt.co.uk>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:12 AM
Subject: simple xml question


> I am a virgin xml user and having a bit or trouble with what I believe
> must be a simple process
>
>
> If I take this sample xml straight from the w3 sebsite
>
> <<<<
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <shipOrder>
>   <shipTo>
>     <name>Tove Svendson</name>
>     <street>Ragnhildvei 2</street>
>     <address>4000 Stavanger</address>
>     <country>Norway</country>
>   </shipTo>
>   <items>
>     <item>
>       <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
>       <quantity>1</quantity>
>       <price>10.90</price>
>     </item>
>     <item>
>       <title>Hide your heart</title>
>       <quantity>1</quantity>
>       <price>9.90</price>
>     </item>
>   </items>
> </shipOrder>
> >>
>
> and get the schema from the same website
> <<
> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema">
>
> <xsd:element     name="shipOrder" type="order"/>
>
> <xsd:complexType name="order">
>   <xsd:element   name="shipTo"    type="shipAddress"/>
>   <xsd:element   name="items"     type="cdItems"/>
> </xsd:complexType>
>
> <xsd:complexType name="shipAddress">
>   <xsd:element   name="name"      type="xsd:string"/>
>   <xsd:element   name="street"    type="xsd:string"/>
>   <xsd:element   name="address"   type="xsd:string"/>
>   <xsd:element   name="country"   type="xsd:string"/>
> </xsd:complexType>
>
> <xsd:complexType name="cdItems">
>   <xsd:element   name="item"      type="cdItem"/>
> </xsd:complexType>
>
> <xsd:complexType name="cdItem">
>   <xsd:element   name="title"     type="xsd:string"/>
>   <xsd:element   name="quantity"
>    type="xsd:positiveInteger"/>
>   <xsd:element   name="price"     type="xsd:decimal"/>
> </xsd:complexType>
>
> </xsd:schema>
> >>
>
> I can load both into my DOM and both are OK
>
> but how can I validate my XML against the schema as the two
> are completely seperate entities ??????
>
>
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