[jdom-interest] General entity references and Schema validation problem (using Xerces2)

[Zandy Marantal]

Hello everyone,

Not sure if this is the right forum but anyway...
I'm currently using JDOM-b9 and am currently having
trouble using Xerces2(2.4, 2.5) when validating
against an XML schema if a general entity reference is
defined within the XML file.
The error I'm getting is this:
"org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type
"personnel" must be declared."

Xerces1(1.4.3, 1.4.4) doesn't have an issue with this.
As is XML Spy. Is there any other Xerces
feature/property that I need to enable/set? It works
if I remove the entity reference "test".

Below is the cut-down version XML file and the schema:
(personal.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE personnel [
  <!ENTITY test "test123">
]>

<personnel
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="personal.xsd">
  <person id="Big.Boss">
    <name>
      <family>Boss&test;</family>
      <given>Big</given>
    </name>
  </person>
</personnel>

(personal.xsd)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xs:element name="personnel">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element ref="person"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>

  <xs:element name="person">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element ref="name"/>
      </xs:sequence>
      <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:ID"
use="required"/>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>

  <xs:element name="name">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:all>
        <xs:element ref="family"/>
        <xs:element ref="given"/>
      </xs:all>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>

  <xs:element name="family" type="xs:string"/>
  <xs:element name="given" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:schema>

(java code)
package jdomexample;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.jdom.*;
import org.jdom.input.*;
import org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser;

public class configParser {

  private static final String DEFAULT_SAX_DRIVER_CLASS
= "org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser";
  private String saxDriverClass;
  private SAXBuilder builder;

  // CONSTRUCTOR - create instance of SAXBuilder for
use in the rest of the program
  public configParser(String saxDriverClass) {
    builder = new SAXBuilder(saxDriverClass, true);
   
builder.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation",
true);
   
builder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema",
true);
  }

  public void read(String filename) throws
IOException, JDOMException {
    Document doc = builder.build(new File(filename));
    Element root = doc.getRootElement();
  }

  // This provides a static entry point for reading an
XML file using JDOM
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    PrintStream out = System.out;
    if (args.length != 1) {
      out.println("Usage: jdomexample.configParser
[xml config file]");
      return;
    }

    // Load filename and SAX driver class
    String filename = args[0];
    String saxDriverClass = DEFAULT_SAX_DRIVER_CLASS;

    // Create an instance of the tester and test
    try {
      configParser cp = new
configParser(saxDriverClass);
      cp.read(filename);
    } catch (JDOMException e) {
      if (e.getCause() != null) {
        e.getCause().printStackTrace();
      } else {
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}


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