> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Stephen J. Smith > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [xml] validating ENTITY attributes (DTD/W3C Schema) > > I'm trying to validate xml with ENTITY attributes against a w3c schema > using xmllint. While researching my problem I found this behavior: > > $ cat foo.xml > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE r SYSTEM "foo.dtd" [ > <!NOTATION jpeg PUBLIC "JPG" "JPG"> > <!ENTITY foo SYSTEM "foo.jpg" NDATA jpeg> > ]> > <r entity="foo"/> > > $ cat foo.dtd > <!ELEMENT r EMPTY> > <!ATTLIST r entity ENTITY #REQUIRED> > > $ xmllint --noout --valid foo.xml > > $ xmllint --noout --dtdvalid foo.dtd foo.xml > foo.xml:0: validity error : ENTITY attribute entity reference > an unknown entity "foo" > Document foo.xml does not validate against foo.dtd > > Why does it validate with --valid, but not with with --dtdvalid? > > Ok, back to validating against a schema: > > $ cat foo.xsd > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";> > <xs:element name="r"> > <xs:complexType> > <xs:attribute name="entity" type="xs:ENTITY"/> > </xs:complexType> > </xs:element> > </xs:schema> > > $ xmllint --noout --schema foo.xsd foo.xml > foo.xml:6: element r: Schemas validity error : Element 'r', > attribute 'entity': 'foo' is not a valid value of the atomic > type 'xs:ENTITY'. > foo.xml fails to validate > > What have I done wrong? Or should I file a bug?
At least with Saxon the scenario validates; although it even validates if I remove the DOCTYPE from the instance, so Saxon might just let through any values defined to be of type xs:ENTITY. Filing a bug would be great. Regards, Kasimier _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
