[jdom-interest] Getting schema validation working without enabling Xerces namespace support. How?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 1:37 PM +0200 9/13/00, Travers Waker wrote:

>
>I might be wrong, but I get the impression that Jason's reply implies that
>schema validation still works when Xerces namespace handling is disabled
>because JDOM does its own namespace handling.  However, this is definitely
>not my experience (the schema is ignored when Xerces namespace handling is
>disabled) .  So, how does one get schema validation working without enabling
>Xerces namespace handling?
>

I'm not sure if I've quite got my head around this problem yet, so I 
may be misunderstanding just what the real issue is, but if I'm not, 
I think I can answer you.

Schemas require namespaces. This isn't a Xerces decision or a JDOM 
decision. It's simply the way the schema spec is written. If you're 
going to validate against a schema, your well-formedness checks must 
include the checks required by the Namespaces in XML specification, 
not just those required by XML 1.0. You cannot turn off namespace 
processing and still validate against a schema.
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