RE: [ebxml-dev] Possible error in ebXML MSG 2.0 xsd=?UTF-8?Q?schema=3F?=

Thanks, DW

Schema validating with XSV 3.1-1 of 2007/12/11 16:20:05

Target: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/schema/msg-header-2_0.xsd
   (Real name: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/schema/msg-header-2_0.xsd
    Length: 10510 bytes
    Last Modified: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:26:57 GMT
    Server: Apache)
docElt: {http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}schema
Validation was strict, starting with type [Anonymous]
The schema(s) used for schema-validation had no errors
No schema-validity problems were found in the target

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ebxml-dev] Possible error in ebXML MSG 2.0 xsd schema?
From: "Johannes Gustafsson" <johannes@inexchange.se>
Date: Wed, October 01, 2008 10:52 am
To: <ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org>

Hello,

I am trying to validate incoming soap-envelopes using .NET to see if they conform to this schema:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/schema/msg-header-2_0.xsd

However, I get errors when trying to load the schema. I use this code to load and compile the schema (in C#):

      XmlSchemaSet schemaSet = new XmlSchemaSet();

      XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();

      settings.ProhibitDtd = false;

      schemaSet.Add(@"http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#", XmlReader.Create(@"http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd", settings));

      schemaSet.Add(@"http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", XmlReader.Create(@"http://www.w3.org/2001/03/xml.xsd", settings));

      schemaSet.Add(@"http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/schema/msg-header-2_0.xsd", @"http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/schema/msg-header-2_0.xsd");

      schemaSet.Compile();

I get this error:

"Wildcard '##other' allows element 'http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#:Reference', and causes the content model to become ambiguous. A content model must be formed such that during validation of an element information item sequence, the particle contained directly, indirectly or implicitly therein with which to attempt to validate each item in the sequence in turn can be uniquely determined without examining the content or attributes of that item, and without any information about the items in the remainder of the sequence."

To rule out a bug I .NET I also tried using Altova:s xml parser (http://www.altova.com/altovaxml.html) with the same result.

The problem lies in line 129 in msg-header-2_0.xsd:

           

           <element name="Acknowledgment">

                      <complexType>

                                 <sequence>

                                            <element ref="tns:Timestamp"/>

                                            <element ref="tns:RefToMessageId"/>

                                            <element ref="tns:From" minOccurs="0"/>

                                            <element ref="ds:Reference" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

           >>>>>>>                          <any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

                                 </sequence>

                                 <attributeGroup ref="tns:headerExtension.grp"/>

                                 <attribute ref="soap:actor"/>

                      </complexType>

           </element>



The <any namespace="##other"> tag allows any other element with a namespace other than the target namespace (See http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#ref34). This should mean that the <element ref="ds:Reference"> is not needed since the <any> element includes it.

If I remove the <element ref="ds:Reference"> on line 128 the schema works.

Has anyone else come across this?

Regards,

Johannes