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Prolasky
Prolasky

Reputation: 55

XSD does not return fault with DOMDocument

I'm trying to validate an XML file with an XSD in PHP with DOMDocument. The translation element must not appear in my XML but schemaValidate does not return an error. I tested with the validation with another validation tool and it returns an error. I don't understand why schemaValidate validates a bad XML.

a part of XSD

<xs:complexType name="CV">
  <xs:complexContent>
     <xs:restriction base="CE">
        <xs:sequence>
           <xs:element name="originalText" type="ED" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1">
              <xs:annotation>
                 <xs:documentation>
                    The text or phrase used as the basis for the coding.
                 </xs:documentation>
              </xs:annotation>
           </xs:element>
           <xs:element name="translation" type="CD" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="0"/>
        </xs:sequence>
      </xs:restriction>
    </xs:complexContent>
  </xs:complexType>

my XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<CV><translation/></CV>

my code

$dom = new DOMDocument("1.0","UTF-8");
$dom->loadXML("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<CV><translation></translation></CV>");
echo $dom->schemaValidate("TestClasses.xsd");

for the complete XSD TestClasses.xsd

Thank for your help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 174

Answers (1)

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

Reputation: 25034

At first glance, this does look like a bug in the schema validator. The PHP manual suggests (but does not say explicitly) that schemaValidate() uses libxml. And libxml's XSD support is not yet complete.

For what it's worth, I note that commenting out the line

<xs:element name="translation" type="CD" 
            minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="0"/>

allows libxml to produce the correct result here, without invalidating the schema (as far as I can tell from a quick test with Saxon and Xerces J).

Upvotes: 2

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