Re: [xml] New to list

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:09:50AM +0200, xml-list to Aahz spamgourmet com wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm new to this list and also to XML. In my new job I will have to deal 
> with XML and Schemas. I received several schema files and created a 
> small testdoc that I'd like validate against the schema.
>
> Yesterday I downloaded and compiled libxml 2.5.9 on my Mac. Can someone 
> please tell me how to validate my testdoc? I tried:
>
> xmllint --validate --noout testdoc.xml
> but this seems to validate against a (missing) DTD so that's wrong I 
> think.
>
> xmllint --schema xsd/documents.xms --noout testdoc.xml
> This produces several errors like:
>  > Unimplemented block at xmlschemas.c:3069
>  > Unimplemented block at xmlschemas.c:3069
>  > compilation error: file xsd/document.xsd line 115 element xs:element
>  > Schemas: element anonelem14 ref to Date not found
> and then many messages like the last 2 lines.
>
> Is this my fault? What am I doing wrong?

  It's not your fault. The W3C XML Schemas code is incomplete and probably
buggy too. At the moment the best is to use the Relax-NG schemas validation
mechanism which is complete and fully supported.

Daniel

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