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Problems validating XML document against schema document

 
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I apologize in advance if my question and code seem frazzled and/or incoherent- I've been wrestling with this problem for a total of about 10 hours for the past week and I'm somewhat frustrated. Also, in the spirit of full disclosure, this problem is part of a homework assignment. My prof is being deliberately unhelpful (feels that way, anyhow), and I think my classmates are having similar issues.
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I am trying to validate a very simple XML document against a (seemingly) simple Schema file. I'm doing this as part of creating a custom object. I'll admit that I don't know if this is the best or even a good way to go about doing this, it's just the easiest for me to work with at this stage.

Whenever I run my program, the XML document parses fine, but I get this error in the output window:

Warning: validation was turned on but an org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler was not
set, which is probably not what is desired. Parser will use a default
ErrorHandler to print the first 10 errors. Please call
the 'setErrorHandler' method to fix this.
Error: URI=file:/Z:/EDU/UMUC/Advanced%20Java%20Programming/Project%202/SWSmith_Network/RequestXMLTest.xml Line=2: Document is invalid: no grammar found.
Error: URI=file:/Z:/EDU/UMUC/Advanced%20Java%20Programming/Project%202/SWSmith_Network/RequestXMLTest.xml Line=2: Document root element "FILESEARCH", must match DOCTYPE root "null".

BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 7 seconds)

Rather than be coy about this, I'm going to post EVERYTHING (sorry if it's a lot to take in):

My main method:


XMLParseServer class fields and constructor:


RequestXMLTest.xml file:


requestschema.xsd file:


Again, totally frustrated at this stage- any thoughts or insights offered are greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time,

-Will
 
S. William Smith
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OK, I kept playing with it and figured it out. I'll post this my solution even though I'm not sure how much use this will be to anyone else- except that I followed a tutorial somewhere that caused me some confusion; maybe this can resolve that.

First, I was making so many changes I lost track of what I had done. In my schema file I was mixing up my namespaces- interchanging XS and XSD in a couple of places.

Second, in my XMLParseServer class when I was setting the schema attributes (factory.setAttribute(JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE, schemaFileName);) I should not have replaced the W3C_XML_SCHEMA constant with my own schema file String object. According to the tutorial I read you can create an array of Strings containing these file names but you can't place a single String or String object with the file name in that location. Although the method accepts it, it evidently doesn't work that way.

Like I said, this may not be much help to anyone else since these mistakes were my own, but you never know.
 
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