Hi Michael,
Thanks for your response and explanation. I guess this logically leads
to the next set of questions.
1. Is Xerces likely to consider adding support for this in the future?
2. Do you have any advice for a workaround?
While investigating this further, I also might have come across a
possible bug.
Package: org.apache.xerces.xpointer
Class: ShorthandPointer
Method: getSchemaDeterminedID(XMLAttributes, int)
This includes the code:
XSTypeDefinition typeDef = attrPSVI.getMemberTypeDefinition();
if (typeDef != null) {
typeDef = attrPSVI.getTypeDefinition();
}
Whereas I think possibly it should be "if (typeDef == null)"?
Also, if it is of interest, I have made some hacks which results in the
xpointer being resolved as I would expect. However, not being familiar
with the details of Xerces implementation, I suspect what I have done is
at the least not very efficient (I am guessing one of the reasons the
decision was made not to do any validation except on the final result),
and maybe even having unforseen side-effects.
Here's a list of the hacks.
1. In XIncludeHandler.reset(), comment out the lines that are setting
the validation related features to false.
2. In XPointerParserConfiguration.configurePipeline(), comment out the
insertion of the fXIncludeHandler before the fSchemaValidator.
3. Above mentioned change to ShorthandPointer.getSchemaDeterminedID().
Patches follow.
--- XIncludeHandler.java Sat Jun 25 06:21:42 2005
+++ XIncludeHandler-New.java Thu Jul 14 08:01:48 2005
@@ -553,6 +553,7 @@
// we don't want a schema validator on the new pipeline,
// so if it was enabled, we set the feature to false as
// well as other validation features.
+/*
try {
if (componentManager.getFeature(SCHEMA_VALIDATION)) {
fSettings.setFeature(SCHEMA_VALIDATION, false);
@@ -561,6 +562,7 @@
}
}
catch (XMLConfigurationException e) {}
+*/
// Don't reset fChildConfig -- we don't want it to share the
same components.
// It will be reset when it is actually used to parse something.
--- XPointerParserConfiguration.java Sat Jun 25 06:21:42 2005
+++ XPointerParserConfiguration-New.java Thu Jul 14 08:04:52 2005
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
// configure XML document pipeline: insert after DTDValidator and
// before XML Schema validator
XMLDocumentSource prev = null;
+ /*
if (fFeatures.get(XMLSCHEMA_VALIDATION) == Boolean.TRUE) {
// we don't have to worry about fSchemaValidator being
null, since
// super.configurePipeline() instantiated it if the
feature was set
@@ -165,6 +166,7 @@
}
// Otherwise, insert after the last component in the pipeline
else {
+ */{
prev = fLastComponent;
fLastComponent = fXPointerHandler;
}
--- ShortHandPointer.java Sat Jun 25 06:21:42 2005
+++ ShortHandPointer-New.java Thu Jul 14 07:38:41 2005
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
// the [base type definition] property recursively;
XSTypeDefinition typeDef = attrPSVI.getMemberTypeDefinition();
- if (typeDef != null) {
+ if (typeDef == null) {
typeDef = attrPSVI.getTypeDefinition();
}
Michael Glavassevich wrote:
Hi Gerrard,
The reason this isn't working for you is that in Xerces, schema validation
is performed on the result infoset produced by the XInclude processor.
(XInclude does not specify a processing order, so this was an
implementation decision.) When the XPointer is processed it isn't known
that the type of the attribute will eventually be determined to be an ID
so it doesn't recognize it as one. I don't think this is mentioned
anywhere in the docs so I intend to add an FAQ to the website. In order
for the schema determined IDs to be available to the XInclude processor,
each of the source infosets would need to be validated before being passed
into the XInclude processor. This currently isn't supported.
Thanks.
Gerrard Drury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/13/2005 07:55:18 AM:
Hi,
I am getting an "XPointer resolution unsuccessful" error when I have an
XInclude include element that has an xpointer attribute using the
XPointer element() Scheme and that begins with an NCName (i.e. a
shorthand pointer).
The include element I am using looks like:
<xi:include href="includeSource.xml" xpointer="element(id1/1)"/>
The error message when I attempt to parse the input source containing
this include element is:
WARNING: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Include operation failed,
reverting to fallback. Resource error reading file as XML
(href='includeSource.xml'). Reason: XPointer resolution unsuccessful.
The include then fails, since I do not specify a fallback.
I am not sure if it is a configuration error on my part, or possibly a
problem in Xerces-J.
I have a valid schema specifying the ID attributes in both the input
source and include source, and have set the parser to be validating.
If I parse the include source using the schema it validates ok.
The problem is when I try to include it using the above XInclude include
element in the input source document.
If I change the xpointer so that it uses only a child sequence, then the
include works fine:
<xi:include href="includeSource.xml" xpointer="element(/1/1/1/1)"/>
I am using Xerces-J v2.7.0 and J2SE 1.5.0 (with Eclipse 3.0.1 as my
IDE).
I did a bit of digging around with the Eclipse debugger, and what I have
noticed is that when ShorthandPointer.hasMatchingIdentifier() is called,
it seems that when the include source is parsed, it is not picking up
the attribute I specify as being of type ID in my schema.
A complete set of sample files that demonstrates the problem is given
below.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gerrard
------- foo.xsd -------
<schema targetNamespace="http://foo.bar.com";
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:foo="http://foo.bar.com"; elementFormDefault="qualified"
attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
<element name="root">
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="element1">
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="element2">
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="element3"
type="string"/>
</sequence>
<attribute name="id" type="ID"/>
</complexType>
</element>
</sequence>
<attribute name="idref" type="IDREFS"/>
</complexType>
</element>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>
</schema>
------- end of foo.xsd --
------- includeSource.xml -------
<root xmlns="http://foo.bar.com";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://foo.bar.com foo.xsd">
<element1 idref="id1">
<element2 id="id1">
<element3>Some text</element3>
</element2>
</element1>
</root>
------- end of includeSource --
------- inputSource.xml -------
<root xmlns="http://foo.bar.com";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://foo.bar.com foo.xsd">
<element1>
<element2>
<xi:include href="includeSource.xml"
xpointer="element(id1/1)"/>
</element2>
</element1>
</root>
------- end of inputSource.xml --
------- ParseTest.java -------
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.apache.xerces.impl.Version;
import org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
public class ParserTest {
private static File inputSource = new File("inputSource.xml");
private static File includeSource = new
File("includeSource.xml");
private static MyErrorHandler errorHandler = new MyErrorHandler();
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(Version.getVersion());
parseFile(includeSource);
parseFile(inputSource);
}
private static void parseFile(File file) {
System.out.println("--------------------------------");
System.out.println("File: " + file.getAbsolutePath());
try {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
System.out.println("Factory: " +
factory.getClass().getName());
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
factory.setValidating(true);
factory.setXIncludeAware(true);
factory.setAttribute(
"http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema";,
Boolean.TRUE);
factory.setAttribute(
"http://apache.org/xml/features/xinclude/fixup-base-uris";,
Boolean.FALSE);
factory.setAttribute(
"http://apache.org/xml/features/xinclude/fixup-language";,
Boolean.FALSE);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
System.out.println("Builder: " +
builder.getClass().getName());
builder.setErrorHandler(errorHandler);
Document document = builder.parse(file);
System.out.println("Document: " +
document.getClass().getName());
XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer();
System.out.println("Serializer: " +
serializer.getClass().getName());
serializer.setOutputByteStream(System.out);
serializer.serialize(document);
System.out.println();
}
catch(Exception e) {
System.err.println(e);
}
}
private static class MyErrorHandler implements ErrorHandler {
public void warning(SAXParseException exception)
throws SAXException {
System.err.println("WARNING: " + exception);
}
public void error(SAXParseException exception)
throws SAXException {
System.err.println("ERROR: " + exception);
}
public void fatalError(SAXParseException exception)
throws SAXException {
System.err.println("FATAL: " + exception);
}
}
}
------- end of ParseTest.java --
--
Gerrard Drury
Software Engineer
Telecommunications & Information Technology Research Institute
Rm104 Bld4, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia
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