Re: Validation error on prefixed attribute

Vincent Figari wrote:

> Hello Panos,
>
> Sorry may be I did not provide enough info:
> With my example, Xerces has schema validation enabled,
> and Xerces parser is initialized with a .xsd defining 
> an element named "elem" having an attribute named "attr"
> in a namespace whose URI is "some-uri".
>
> <pr:elem attr="value" xmlns:pr="some-uri" />
> will be parsed succesfully by Xerces, but:
>
> <pr:elem pr:attr="value" xmlns:pr="some-uri" />
> will cause Xerces to throw:
> Fatal: cvc-complex-type.3.2.2: Attribute "pr:attr" is not allowed to appear in element 
> "pr:elem"
>
> Although unusual, this still looks valid xml to me ?
But it probably isn't. A "local" attribute does not belong to any 
namespace. For both examples to be valid, the element would have to have 
an attribute named attr and there would have to be a global attribute in 
the namespace (defined at the top level) named attr.
Bob Foster
http://xmlbuddy.com/