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How do you validate XML with Schema in Eclipse? [message #530254]

Thu, 29 April 2010 06:46

wic

Messages: 5
Registered: April 2010

Junior Member

I am trying to validate an XML file against it's XML Schema (*.xsd) in the Eclipse GUI , but I cannot get it to work.

When I right-click the xml-file and select "Validate", it gives me no validation error at all and says "Validation successful" (or something along those lines). So Eclipse does is not using the xsd-file at all Mad

For this example, I used the files here: http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/schema_example.asp

I created two files (shiporder.xml and shiporder.xsd) into a empty project in Eclipse and messed up some tags in the xml file.

I have tried all types of permutations with schema location attributes and even used the Preferences/XML/Schema catalog, but nothing seems to work.

Here is the XML:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shiporder orderid="" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="shiporder.xsd">
  <XXX_orderperson>orderperson</XXX_orderperson>
  <shipto>
    <name>name</name>
    <address>address</address>
    <city>city</city>
    <country>country</country>
  </shipto>
  <item>
    <title>title</title>
    <quantity>1</quantity>
    <price>0.0</price>
  </item>
</shiporder>

(Note the messed up tags just to (supposedly) trigger the validation error)

Here is the XSD:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema[/url]">
<xs:element name="shiporder">
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="orderperson" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:element name="shipto">
        <xs:complexType>
          <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/>
            <xs:element name="address" type="xs:string"/>
            <xs:element name="city" type="xs:string"/>
            <xs:element name="country" type="xs:string"/>
          </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
      </xs:element>
      <xs:element name="item" maxOccurs="unbounded">
        <xs:complexType>
          <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="title" type="xs:string"/>
            <xs:element name="note" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
            <xs:element name="quantity" type="xs:positiveInteger"/>
            <xs:element name="price" type="xs:decimal"/>
          </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
      </xs:element>
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attribute name="orderid" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>

I would expect it to say "No definition for element XXX_xxxx" found or something like that. But no...

SUCCESS. Yeah right!

This is with Eclipse Build id: 20100218-1602

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Re: How do you validate XML with Schema in Eclipse? [message #530320 is a reply to message #530254]

Thu, 29 April 2010 11:13

Sarika Sinha

Messages: 131
Registered: February 2010
Location: Bangalore, India

Senior Member

Hi,
I tried these on the latest build, for xsd it gave me error for [url]. I removed them and then when I tried validating the xml it said, xsd should have a target space. After adding the targetspace, I got the error in xml file you were looking for.

Try this in xsd :
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

And in xml:
<shiporder orderid="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema shiporder.xsd">

Sarika Sinha
JDT Programmer

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Re: How do you validate XML with Schema in Eclipse? [message #530325 is a reply to message #530320]

Thu, 29 April 2010 11:45

wic

Messages: 5
Registered: April 2010

Junior Member

Well '[url]' is some crap inserted by this forum I guess. I'm not that retarded Wink

...

Anyway, I tried these files on my home Mac machine with Build id: 20090920-1017 (Galileo) and it worked 100% straight away there (after I fixed the XXX_string).

I got no message about needing at target space as you did.

To bad that it doesn't work at all at my work installation though.

/Thanks

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Re: How do you validate XML with Schema in Eclipse? [message #530682 is a reply to message #530325]

Fri, 30 April 2010 14:09

David Carver

Messages: 174
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Have you guys tried adding the necessary schemas to the XML Catalog within eclipse. XML Schemas are handled by namespace or via schemaLocation. Keep in mind that if you use schemaLocation you need to provide the path where the schema resides.

Also, make sure you have turned on in the Preferences for XML, "Warn when no grammar present" to notify you if it can find an appropriate grammar for the XML in question.

For more info on using the XML Catalogs see: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Using_the_XML_Catalog

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