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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