Re: [xml-dev] validating against the standard W3C

["Dare Obasanjo" <kpako@yahoo.com>]

Title: RE: [xml-dev] validating against the standard W3C

Have you tried using another parser besides the Sun's MSV? I know for a fact that XSV can validate the W3C schema since I tried it myself shortly after the first email I sent you. You can easily verify this by accessing this URL

 

        http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv?docAddrs=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2FXMLSchema.xsd&style=xsl

 

which is the results of having XSV validate the XSD file for W3C XML schema. I also mentioned that if you run Windows you can have XSV validate schemas by calling Runtime.exec( ) from your application.  If you absolutely have to use a Java API and don't run Windows I suggest trying Xerces which from my experience is fairly good as well.

 

Secondly, I keep wondering what validating your schema against the W3C XSD files buys you considering that you should get the same effect from using the "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" namespace in your schema (and in fact the W3C schema XSD file at http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd does in fact use that namespace so either way you're going to use it).

 

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----- Original Message -----

From: Bart.Boogaerts@ASQ.BE

To: jeffrafter@defined.net ; xml-dev@lists.xml.org

Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 12:55 AM

Subject: RE: [xml-dev] validating against the standard W3C

ok,
this answers say that to validate against the normative schema,
you have to write it in your schema (namespace declaration)

but how can you then validate this schema? Just by parsing=>gives parse exceptions but we want validation excpetions and more explanation about the possible error...

and we want to validate making use of a java api...
any idea how to do this?

I checked the deja-vu archive but couldn't find an answer to this question...

bart

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Rafter [mailto:jeffrafter@defined.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:41 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] validating against the standard W3C

> Another resource is the Deja-vu archive of the XMLSchema-dev mailing list,
> again doing keyword searches. There's a number of Rec mavens on that list
> who've answered almost every question at least once.

Yeah, Eddie Robertson and Henry Thompson answered this one [1]-- I couldn't
say it better:

[1]
     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xmlschema-dev/2001May/0127.html
     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xmlschema-dev/2001Jun/0002.html

HTH,
Jeff Rafter
Defined Systems
http://www.defined.net
XML Development and Developer Web Hosting

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