XML - Declaration of element

[leepurton]

Hi,

Im new to the dizzy world of xml and schema and have just returned from a four day course in a bit of a daze.

Im just testing out a previously validated xml document and schema on netbeans, which worked well on the course but Im now getting the following error message;

cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'Books'. [30]

Any suggestions would be grately appreciated.

As a side issue, can anyone recommend any xml reference books i.e. Dummys guide type thing?

Cheers.
Lee

[Jezza]

Hi Lee

Sounds like the normal announces of XML XSL etc <img src=/S/grin.gif border=0 alt=grin width=15 height=15>

Have a loom at another validator try W3C XML schema validator , you can't argue with them.

I take the exercise is the usual book store with ISBN etc...if it is I will drag out one of my books and have a look but if it has worked, and you haven't made changes I would say it is the validator

[leepurton]

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for that, I'll check out that validator.

I should have mentioned before that when I click on the validation error message it highlights a line in the schema root of the xml document as follows;

xsi:schemaLocation='HottXMLIntro file:/C:/Documents and Settings/purtonl/Desktop/Lee/Lee__HOTTXML/Mod08/Solutions/Books.xsd'>

Im not sure it looked like this when I was on the course but maybe you can spot something?

The thing is if I view the document in a IE browser it does appear to be how it should ?!!

Thanks again for your help on this.

Cheers.
Lee

[jscher2000]

For "file://" type URIs usually there are more slashes and no : after the drive letter. So that path probably isn't quite right. I'm not sure where it actually should point; in the "real world" the schema usually is remote from the user and not on a local drive.

[Jezza]

Hi Lee

Right it appears that in your training session you must have had a locally based schemaLocation.

SchemaLocation usually come in this format:

<pre>xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform.xsd
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.xsd"></pre>


Try copying the Books.xsd file to the root folder of your file so it reads

<pre>xsi:schemaLocation="books.xsd"></pre>

obviously search for it and copy it to the required location

Worth a try

[leepurton]

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for the tip. Ive moved the books.xsd to the file root folder.

No more error messages....For the moment anyway !!

Thanks for all your help.

Cheers.
Lee

[leepurton]

Hi jscher,

Thanks for the advice, have got rid of the error message now by moving books.xsd to the root folder.

Cheers.
Lee