Question

If I run this XML validation via xmllint:

xmllint --noout --schema schema.xsd test.xml

I get this success message:

.../test.xml validates

However if I run the same validation via libxml2’s C API:

int result = xmlSchemaValidateDoc(...)

I get a return value of 1845 and this failure message:

Element '{http://example.com/XMLSchema/1.0}foo': No matching global declaration available for the validation root.

Which I can make absolutely no sense of. 🙁

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schema.xsd:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE xs:schema PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XMLSCHEMA 200102//EN" "XMLSchema.dtd" >
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://example.com/XMLSchema/1.0" targetNamespace="http://example.com/XMLSchema/1.0" elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">

    <xs:element name="foo">
    </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

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test.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<foo xmlns="http://example.com/XMLSchema/1.0">
</foo>

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main.c:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <string.h>

#include <libxml/parser.h>
#include <libxml/valid.h>
#include <libxml/xmlschemas.h>

u_int32_t get_file_size(const char *file_name) {
    struct stat buf;
    if ( stat(file_name, &buf) != 0 ) return(0);
    return (unsigned int)buf.st_size;
}

void handleValidationError(void *ctx, const char *format, ...) {
    char *errMsg;
    va_list args;
    va_start(args, format);
    vasprintf(&errMsg, format, args);
    va_end(args);
    fprintf(stderr, "Validation Error: %s", errMsg);
    free(errMsg);
}

int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    const char *xsdPath = argv[1];
    const char *xmlPath = argv[2];

    printf("\n");

    printf("XSD File: %s\n", xsdPath);
    printf("XML File: %s\n", xmlPath);

    int xmlLength = get_file_size(xmlPath);
    char *xmlSource = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * xmlLength);

    FILE *p = fopen(xmlPath, "r");
    char c;
    unsigned int i = 0;
    while ((c = fgetc(p)) != EOF) {
        xmlSource[i++] = c;
    }
    printf("\n");

    printf("XML Source:\n\n%s\n", xmlSource);
    fclose(p);

    printf("\n");

    int result = 42;
    xmlSchemaParserCtxtPtr parserCtxt = NULL;
    xmlSchemaPtr schema = NULL;
    xmlSchemaValidCtxtPtr validCtxt = NULL;

    xmlDocPtr xmlDocumentPointer = xmlParseMemory(xmlSource, xmlLength);
    parserCtxt = xmlSchemaNewParserCtxt(xsdPath);

    if (parserCtxt == NULL) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not create XSD schema parsing context.\n");
        goto leave;
    }

    schema = xmlSchemaParse(parserCtxt);

    if (schema == NULL) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not parse XSD schema.\n");
        goto leave;
    }

    validCtxt = xmlSchemaNewValidCtxt(schema);

    if (!validCtxt) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not create XSD schema validation context.\n");
        goto leave;
    }

    xmlSetStructuredErrorFunc(NULL, NULL);
    xmlSetGenericErrorFunc(NULL, handleValidationError);
    xmlThrDefSetStructuredErrorFunc(NULL, NULL);
    xmlThrDefSetGenericErrorFunc(NULL, handleValidationError);

    result = xmlSchemaValidateDoc(validCtxt, xmlDocumentPointer);

leave:

    if (parserCtxt) {
        xmlSchemaFreeParserCtxt(parserCtxt);
    }

    if (schema) {
        xmlSchemaFree(schema);
    }

    if (validCtxt) {
        xmlSchemaFreeValidCtxt(validCtxt);
    }
    printf("\n");
    printf("Validation successful: %s (result: %d)\n", (result == 0) ? "YES" : "NO", result);

    return 0;
}

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console output:

XSD File: /Users/dephiniteloop/Desktop/xml_validate/schema.xsd
XML File: /Users/dephiniteloop/Desktop/xml_validate/test.gkml

XML Source:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<foo xmlns="http://example.com/XMLSchema/1.0">
</foo>

Validation Error: Element '{http://example.com/XMLSchema/1.0}foo': No matching global declaration available for the validation root.

Validation successful: NO (result: 1845)

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In case it matters: I’m on OSX 10.6.7 with its default libxml2.dylib
(/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/lib/libxml2.2.7.3.dylib)

Answer 1

After getting some help on the gnome project’s xml mailing-list it appears as if my error is not caused by a bug of mine, but rather by a bug of OSX 10.6.x’s distribution (v2.7.3) of libxml2.
(as in: same code works for others, yet fails for me OSX’ legacy distribution)

I checked the libxml2 release notes and found two candidates:

Release notes of Update 2.7.4 list the following bug fix:

• “579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard)”

Release notes of Update 2.7.8 list the following bug fix:

• “Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly)”

Haven’t yet had success getting the latest build (v2.7.8) of libxml2 to work with my project (or rather Xcode in general) though.