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Hi,

the attached XML file isn't bound to an XML Schema. It uses a "foreign
element" from DC namespace which is declared and bound to an XSD.

I introduced a typo in order to check the validation process. But
Xerces-J only says "Document is invalid: no grammar found.". It
doesn't check the DC element with respect to the defined XSD.

Is the XML file valid according to W3C specification?

How to figure Xerces-J forcing it to validate the DC element?

Is there another validator which does the desired task?

XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<abc:AAA xmlns:abc="http://example.org/">
<abc:title>AAA title</abc:title>
<dc:tite xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlnssi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2008/02/11/dc.xsd">Document title</dc:tite>
</abc:AAA>

I use Xerces in the 'xmlvalidate' ant task:

<xmlvalidate file="${xml-file}.xml"
classname="org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser"
failonerror="false">
<attribute name="http://xml.org/sax/features/validation"
value="true"/>
<attribute name="http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema"
value="true"/>
<attribute name="http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces"
value="true"/>
<attribute name="http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes"
value="true"/>
</xmlvalidate>

Any help would be approciated.

Susi

Different validators differ wrt whether they attend to xsi:schemaLoc,
particularly if it's not on the document element -- some have switches
to control this (XSV, for example), but not all. . .

You could try moving the schemaLoc to the doc. elt. . .

ht
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