The 3rd party schemas that I'm trying to use are provided by OpenGIS group
(www.opengis.org). I'm currently using the GML v3.0.0 though I saw today
there is an update (v3.0.1). The problems that I'm having with trying to
compile these XML schemas with JAXB are
1) The GML (openGIS) use of <appinfo> in their schema files. I'm not sure
exactly why JAXB has a problem but if I simply comment out the <appinfo>
element then I get past this problem. As I provided before, the XJC error
message from the XJC ant task is:
[xjc] [ERROR] unexpected character literal
[xjc] line 4 of basicTypes.xsd
I get this for a few of the schema files but not all of them.
and:
2) The GML schemas implement "abstract" attribute (abstract="true") on some
of their elements. In this case, the error message that I get is:
[xjc] [ERROR] unsupported schema feature: "abstract" attribute of
<element> is not supported
[xjc] line 38 of gmlBase.xsd
So my question is why do these schema files have a problem with the
<appinfo> line and when will/might support be available for "abstract"
attributes of elements? And, is there any other work around that I might be
able to use given that I don't own these XML schema files?
If anyone is interested in looking at the OpenGIS xml Schema files, they can
go to www.opengis.org or let me know and I can provide them in a zip file.
Jerald
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Pl?mpe [mailto:thomanski_at_gmx.de]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:17 AM
To: Discussion list for the Java Architecture for XML Binding
Cc: Pratt, Jerald
Subject: Re: Use of <appinfo> with JAXB
Hi Jerald,
> was able to get successful validation via XmlSpy, but as many have
> suggested, XmlSpy does not provide the best validation results.
try validating the instance document and/or your schemas with e.g. xsv
(
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/xsv-status.html) or Xerces. That should
give you more (or less) confidence in the files you are working with and
should help figuring out whether the error you are encountering is
JAXB's fault.
Thomas