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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=703052116-02042009>Hello,
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=703052116-02042009>I have encountered a
problem with schema object creation with lxml; the problem relates to namespace
used for the root element of the schema.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=703052116-02042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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class=703052116-02042009><snip></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=703052116-02042009>>>> import
lxml.etree<BR>>>> et =
lxml.etree.ElementTree(file=open('c:\\temp\\MySchema', 'r'))<BR>>>>
et<BR><lxml.etree._ElementTree object at 0x011B8AF8><BR>>>> xsd =
lxml.etree.XMLSchema(et)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=703052116-02042009>Traceback (most
recent call last):<BR> File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in
<module><BR> xsd = lxml.etree.XMLSchema(et)<BR>
File "xmlschema.pxi", line 50, in lxml.etree.XMLSchema.__init__
(src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:120919)<BR>XMLSchemaParseError: Document is not XML
Schema</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=703052116-02042009></snip></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=703052116-02042009><FONT face=Arial size=2>Looking in
subversion (<A
href="http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk/src/lxml/xmlschema.pxi">http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk/src/lxml/xmlschema.pxi</A>),
in the XMLSchema class I see:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=703052116-02042009><FONT face=Arial
size=2><snip></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=703052116-02042009><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=703052116-02042009><FONT face=Arial><PRE><FONT face=Arial> # work around for libxml2 bug if document is not XML schema at all
#if _LIBXML_VERSION_INT < 20624:
c_node = root_node._c_node
c_href = _getNs(c_node)
if c_href is NULL or \
cstd.strcmp(c_href, 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema') != 0:
raise XMLSchemaParseError, u"Document is not XML Schema"</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial></snip></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>The schemas that I am using use this root element:</FONT></PRE><PRE><xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema">http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema</A>"></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial>If I change them to <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A>"> they validate. </FONT></PRE><PRE></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can you explain why the earlier namespace definition is unacceptable? Is there a workaround? </FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>The schemas are not built by my application, so changing them might be an issue.</FONT></SPAN></PRE></DIV>
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