Re: validate .xml against .xsd

Ian Stokes-Rees <ijs@decisionsoft.com> writes:

> The likely problems are:
> mismatches in namespace,
> incorrect use of elementFormDefault,
> mismatches in schemaLocation.
> incorrect use of xmlns="..." (default namespace)
> incorrect specification of XSDL namespace
>     (should be: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema)
> incorrect specification of XSI namespace
>     (should be: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance)

Ian's suggestions are all good.  Looking at the raw XML output from
XSV may give you further hints as to the source of your problem, which
is certainly something to do with namespaces -- lax validation is a
sign that no declaration for the document element of your .xml was
found in your .xsd.

ht
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