Issue in validating vanila XML

[joshua asem]

Need help in validating with the existing XML and existing XSD:
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These are the entities used:
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XSD FILE (mainInfo.xsd):
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:abc="http://somesite.com/schemas/BaseDataTypes" targetNamespace="http://somesite.com/BaseDataTypes">
<xsd:include schemaLocation="http://somesite.com/schemas/BaseDataTypes.xsd"/>
 
<xsd:element name="mainDetail">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="City" type="abc:String30DataType"/>
<xsd:element name="State" type="abc:String30DataType"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
 

<xsd:element name="mainHeader">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="abc:TotalRecords"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
 

<xsd:element name="mainTag">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="abc:mainHeader"/>
<xsd:element ref="abc:mainDetail"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
 
</xsd:schema>  

XML File:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mainTag>
   <mainHeader>
         <TotalRecords><![CDATA[1]]></TotalRecords>
   </mainHeader>
   <mainDetail>
       <City><![CDATA[Chicago]]></City>
       <State><![CDATA[Illinois]]></State>
   </mainDetail>
<mainTag>

ERROR MESSAGE:
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Error : cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'mainTag'
IF I CHECK WITH FOLLOWING STARTING TAG IT WORKS PERFECTLY But following way we can't change from the thirdparty's XML:
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<mainTag xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://somesite.com/schemas/BaseDataTypes"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://somesite.com/schemas/BaseDataTypes http://somesite.com/schemas/mainInfo.xsd">

I USED THE FOLLOWING CODE FOR VALIDATING AGAINST THE XSD:
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import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;


public class DomValidator {
static final String schemaSource = "c:\\testProject\\mainInfo.xsd";

static final String xml_file = "c:\\testProject\\profile.xml";

static final String JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE = "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage";

static final String JAXP_SCHEMA_SOURCE = "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaSource";

public static void main(String args[]) {


try {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory
.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
factory.setValidating(true);


factory.setAttribute(JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE,
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema");
factory.setAttribute(JAXP_SCHEMA_SOURCE, new File(schemaSource));


DocumentBuilder domParser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
// Set Error Handler
ErrorChecker errors = new ErrorChecker();
domParser.setErrorHandler(errors);

Document document = domParser.parse(new File(xml_file));
List errorList = errors.getErrors();
Iterator iter = errorList.iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
String errroMessage = (String) iter.next();
System.out.println(errroMessage);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

}
}

// to capture the errors and warnings and the fatal errors occured

class ErrorChecker extends DefaultHandler

{
public ArrayList errorList = new ArrayList();

public ErrorChecker() {
}

public List getErrors() {
return errorList;
}

public void error(SAXParseException e) {
errorList.add("Error : " + e.getMessage() + " " + e.getPublicId() + " "
+ e.getSystemId());
}

public void warning(SAXParseException e) {
errorList.add("Warning : " + e.getMessage());
}

public void fatalError(SAXParseException e) {
errorList.add("Fatal error : " + e.getMessage());
System.exit(1);
}

}

It would be great if anyone can suggest me without changing the existing XML structure to validate properly by changing in My Java program. Or guide me to the right direction would be appreiciated.

[Paul Clapham]

I don't know much about Schema. But what you are saying is, if you declare your mainTag element to be in the default namespace then the XML validates, and if you declare it to be in no namespace, then it doesn't validate.

And I observe that your schema has a targetNamespace attribute whose value just happens to be the same as the default namespace URI which makes the XML validate.

So if this were my problem, I would go to my Schema reference material and find out what the targetNamespace attribute was supposed to do and what would happen if I left it out.

[joshua asem]

HMM...

targetNamespace="http://somesite.com/BaseDataTypes"
AND
schemaLocation="http://somesite.com/BaseDataTypes.xsd"
should be same in the XSD file, So can't change with that.

Also these xsd and xml are third-party's files and I have only the Java program which need to tailored to fit those guys. And the given xsd and xml properly validates with the XMLSpy. I am wondering is there anything which can change the attributes in the above java program to fit those guys and validate properly. Still wondering
[ August 21, 2008: Message edited by: joshuaa ]

[Bear Bibeault]

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