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Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Bob Foster writes: >>Hmm. XercesJ reports three errors (not warnings) from this schema of >>the form: >> >>Error - src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'unknownX' to a(n) 'type >>definition' component. >> >>Where X is one of: 1, 2, 3; > > How did you invoke Xerces? Um, cut & paste. Perhaps you mean why? Because I've seen it flag dangling references before and wanted to check my own sanity. > I'm not a Xerces user, but I am pretty > sure the REC says that instance is schema valid per the schema > corresponding to that schema doc. > > It's also true that that schema is not 'complete' or 'self-contained', > but it's not broken as such. The REC is very clear that dangling > references that aren't needed for validation are not an error. Oh, is that the point the REC is very clear on? ;-} I apologize for that. Seriously, XercesJ is a very widely used parser and the example wasn't in any way an obscure corner case. I hate to pick on you while you're trying to help out a user, but this doesn't reinforce the notion that conformance issues are largely behind us. Bob Foster
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