From: Pratt, Jerald <jerald.pratt_at_ngc.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:22:57 -0700

I'm getting an error message regarding the use of the <appinfo> element when
running xjc (from the xjc ant task) for some 3rd party schemas that I have.
I am using jwsdp-1.2 that I recently downloaded and installed on Win2k. The
error message is:

 [xjc] [ERROR] unexpected character literal
 [xjc] line 4 of geometryBasic0d1d.xsd

and I get this from multiple files in the same namespace with the same
issue. When examining each of these files, I found that there is an
<annoation> element block right after the initial <schema> element and
inside this <annoation> block is an <appinfo> element. If I simply comment
out the <appinfo> element, then the XJC task continues w/out errors.

Are there specific limitations with JAXB regarding the use of <appinfo>? Or
is this an illegal use of the <appinfo> element?

The start of the XML Schema document looks like this:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <schema targetNamespace="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:sch="http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron"
    xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
elementFormDefault="qualified"
    version="3.0.0">
   <annotation>
     <appinfo

source="urn:opengis:specification:gml:schemaxsd:geometryBasic0d1d:v3.0.0">ge
ometryBasic0d1d.xsd</appinfo>
     <documentation>
      Copyright (c) 2001-2002 OGC, All Rights Reserved.
     </documentation>
   </annotation>
 <!-- ============================================================== -->
   <include schemaLocation="measures.xsd">
     <annotation>
       <documentation>This includes not only measures.xsd, but also
units.xsd, gmlBase.xsd and basicTypes.xsd.</documentation>
     </annotation>
   </include>
   ............. <!-- the rest of the xml schema file follows --> .......

Enclosed is the complete 3rd party Xml Schema library that I'm using for
reference. I have actually found a variety of problems with trying to get
JAXB to compile this schema library (<appinfo>, use of abstract elements,
recursive behavior, etc.) so I'm not sure if this will be useful or not. I
was able to get successful validation via XmlSpy, but as many have
suggested, XmlSpy does not provide the best validation results.

Jerald Pratt

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Northrop Grumman IT
jerpratt_at_northropgrumman.com
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