Re: Most common XML/XSD validations?

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:33:31 GMT
Message-ID:
<7924cf71dbe6e@uwe>
Roedy Green wrote:

It is a freeware tool that validates XML against
XML Schema Definitions (XSD). It can be found here.
<http://www.physci.org/xml/xmltools.html#yaxv>


I have a problem using this. Try validating
http://mindprod.com/webstart/replicator.jnlp with
an old JNLP xsd,
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/snippet/jnlp-xml-schema.xsd


For the moment, I will restrict* testing to the
simpler validator, XMLValidate. I have added
the two URLs to version 0.5 of..
<http://www.physci.org/test/xml/XMLValidate.java>
The output I get when selecting the two files, is..

Create schema from
  'http://mindprod.com/jgloss/snippet/jnlp-xml-schema.xsd'.
Schema created successfully.
Validate content from
  'http://mindprod.com/webstart/replicator.jnlp' against schema.
org.xml. ..
...
Total (warning, error, fatal) errors detected: 8

Alternately, when I compare it against the XSD for
the latest 6.0 XSD (off the PhySci site)

Create schema from
  'http://www.physci.org/JNLP-6.0.xsd'.
Schema created successfully.
Validate content from
  'http://mindprod.com/webstart/replicator.jnlp' against schema.
Total (warning, error, fatal) errors detected: 0

That sounds pretty logical, given the mindprod
XSD is for an older version.

OK - whatever errors remain, are peculiar to YAX-V -
I'll look into it after the rework*.

Thanks for the report.

* At the moment, YAX-V is undergoing a huge rework
that will address most of the bugs and RFEs so
far mentioned. But I'd like to clarify validation
against DTDs, before I go too far with that.

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