> It should be possible to limit Validation to specific namespaces, so
> this is not necessarily a problem.

"Bjoern Hoehrmann" <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> wrote in message
news:41e3d520.210891546@news.bjoern.hoehrmann.de...
>* Kent Ogletree wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:
>>I am porting a Java XML Validation class over to C# and I am having a
>>problem finding exactly what I need to acomplish the task.
>>
>>First I need to test for well formedness. I know this is usually something
>>that does not need to be done, however in this case it is required. Is the
>>best way to do this to validate to the schema and if no exception is
>>thrown
>>it must be well formed? What exception would be thrown if the document is
>>found to not be well formed?
>
> Yes, that's in fact the only way for most processors. The exception
> depends on the interface you use (XmlDocument, XmlTextReader, etc.)
>
>>Second, these documents sometimes come with additional vendor specified
>>metadata included. When they do there is additional XSDs included. How
>>would
>>I load these into the cache and know the proper name space for them since
>>I
>>can not know in advance if they are included or even their name? Depending
>>on the source of them, these XSDs could have an unknown variaty of
>>different
>>namespaces. We do not use this data but my understanding of Validation is
>>if
>>we do not want an error during validation we need to include the XSDs in
>>the
>>process.
>
> It should be possible to limit Validation to specific namespaces, so
> this is not necessarily a problem. At least XML Schema does not require
> positive validation of all elements to determine schema-validity.
> --
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>I am porting a Java XML Validation class over to C# and I am having a
>problem finding exactly what I need to acomplish the task.
>
>First I need to test for well formedness. I know this is usually something
>that does not need to be done, however in this case it is required. Is the
>best way to do this to validate to the schema and if no exception is thrown
>it must be well formed? What exception would be thrown if the document is
>found to not be well formed?

>Second, these documents sometimes come with additional vendor specified
>metadata included. When they do there is additional XSDs included. How would
>I load these into the cache and know the proper name space for them since I
>can not know in advance if they are included or even their name? Depending
>on the source of them, these XSDs could have an unknown variaty of different
>namespaces. We do not use this data but my understanding of Validation is if
>we do not want an error during validation we need to include the XSDs in the
>process.

"Kent Ogletree" <kent@nospam.actionic.com> wrote in message
news:OW2bm7P9EHA.1296@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > It should be possible to limit Validation to specific namespaces, so
> > this is not necessarily a problem.
>
> Where might I find a reference to limiting the validation to the data in a
> specific namespace?
>
> Kent
>
>
>
> "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> wrote in message
> news:41e3d520.210891546@news.bjoern.hoehrmann.de...
> >* Kent Ogletree wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:
> >>I am porting a Java XML Validation class over to C# and I am having a
> >>problem finding exactly what I need to acomplish the task.
> >>
> >>First I need to test for well formedness. I know this is usually
something
> >>that does not need to be done, however in this case it is required. Is
the
> >>best way to do this to validate to the schema and if no exception is
> >>thrown
> >>it must be well formed? What exception would be thrown if the document
is
> >>found to not be well formed?
> >
> > Yes, that's in fact the only way for most processors. The exception
> > depends on the interface you use (XmlDocument, XmlTextReader, etc.)
> >
> >>Second, these documents sometimes come with additional vendor specified
> >>metadata included. When they do there is additional XSDs included. How
> >>would
> >>I load these into the cache and know the proper name space for them
since
> >>I
> >>can not know in advance if they are included or even their name?
Depending
> >>on the source of them, these XSDs could have an unknown variaty of
> >>different
> >>namespaces. We do not use this data but my understanding of Validation
is
> >>if
> >>we do not want an error during validation we need to include the XSDs in
> >>the
> >>process.
> >
> > It should be possible to limit Validation to specific namespaces, so
> > this is not necessarily a problem. At least XML Schema does not require
> > positive validation of all elements to determine schema-validity.
> > --
> > Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
> > Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de
> > 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
>
>