Re: [xml] Schema validation fails with global definitions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:48:37PM +0200, Israel Ganor wrote:
> Validating this simple file using xmlSchemaValidateDoc() (Windows libxml
> 2.6.7) always gives the error "Element USER content check failure":
> 
> <BHUB-ADMIN xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="BrainSchema.xsd">
> 	<USER ACTION="modify">
> 		<METHODS>5</METHODS>
> 	</USER>
> </BHUB-ADMIN>
> 
> The schema fragment looks as follows:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> <xs:element name="BHUB-ADMIN">
> 	<xs:complexType>
> 		<xs:sequence>
> 			<xs:element ref="USER"/>
> 		</xs:sequence>
> 	</xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> <xs:element name="METHODS" type="xs:byte"/>
> <xs:element name="USER">
> 	<xs:complexType>
> 		<xs:sequence>
> 			<xs:element ref="METHODS"/>
> 		</xs:sequence>
> 		<xs:attribute name="ACTION"/>
> 	</xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> 
> Te error is resolved if I replace the global definition of USER (<xs:element
> ref="USER"/>) by a local definition as follows:
[..]
> 
> Doesn't libxml2 support global elements?
> This is a great problem for me since I have huge schemas with complex
> hierarchy, and many of the elements are common and referenced from several
> elements.

  I can't really make sense of a "schemas fragment". It seems to me
this should work, but since you didn't provided a complete example 
I can't really reproduce the problem. Can you post the full xsd (or 
a reduced version of it rather).

Daniel

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