Question

I’m trying to configure a Spring config (xml) file and am trying to add a namespace for a valid schema file that I have living locally inside my project. The reason is that I don’t have a “real” URL (web server, etc.), so I’m trying to just use a local schema that I will provide under WEB-INF/:

MyProject/
    src/
        java/
        config/
            MySchema.xsd
            spring-config.xml
    build.xml

Inside my spring-config.xml:

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

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:ms="http://myproject.org/MySchema.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
   http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">

Project is building & deploying fine, but when I go to run it I get:

org.xml.sax.SAXException: Failed to locate XSD resource '/META-INF/MySchema.xsd' on 
classpath. Namespace: 'http://myproject.org/MySchema.xsd'.

Ultimately I’d like both spring-config.xml and MySchema.xsd stored under WEB-INF/, so I’m not sure why Spring is looking inside META-INF/… any ideas?

The URL http://myproject.org/MySchema.xsd is not a real URL, just giving the schema its own namespace. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

There is no “definition” (I don’t know the correct term) of the http://myproject.org/MySchema.xsd in the xsi:schemaLocation attribute. Try something like this:

xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd
http://myproject.org/MySchema.xsd location/of/MySchema.xsd">