HI! I am trying to provide a schema for a node, not for the whole document.
Xerces 2.4.0 does not report a schema error in this case. Example: book.xsd: <xs:schema targetNamespace="bookns" xmlns:a="bookns" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:element name="book"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="a:title"/> <xs:element ref="a:author"/> <xs:element ref="a:publisher"/> <xs:element ref="a:isbn"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="title" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="author" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="publisher" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="isbn" type="xs:string"/> </xs:schema> magazine.xsd: <xs:schema targetNamespace="magazinens" xmlns:a="magazinens" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:element name="magazine"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref="a:title"/> <xs:element ref="a:publisher"/> <xs:element ref="a:version"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="title" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="publisher" type="xs:string" /> <xs:element name="version" type="xs:string"/> </xs:schema> inventory01.xml: <inventory> <m:magazine xmlns:m="magazinens" xsi:schemaLocation="magazinens magazine.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <m:title>Core XML</m:title> <m:publisher>XC</m:publisher> <m:version>2003/11</m:version> </m:magazine> <b:book xmlns:b="bookns" xsi:schemaLocation="bookns book.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <b:title_>XSD</b:title_> <b:author>Xaver Samuel Digit</b:author> <b:publisher>AW</b:publisher> <b:isbn>3-930673-62-2</b:isbn> </b:book> <m:magazine xmlns:m="magazinens" xsi:schemaLocation="magazinens magazine.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <m:title_>Core XML</m:title_> <m:publisher>XC</m:publisher> <m:version>2003/11</m:version> </m:magazine> </inventory> Code: DocumentBuilderFactory dbf; DocumentBuilder db; Document d; dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); dbf.setNamespaceAware(true); dbf.setValidating(true); dbf.setAttribute("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/dynamic", new Boolean(true)); dbf.setAttribute("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", new Boolean(true)); db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); db.setErrorHandler(new XMLDocument.XmlErrorHandler()); d = db.parse(new File("C:\\inventory01.xml")); This should throw an exception because of "title_". Any ideas? Thanks! Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]