[XERCESJ-1467] cvc-elt.4.3: Type 'xs:localComplexType' is not validly derived from the type definition, 'complexType', of element 'child'.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 2.10.0
• Component/s: XML Schema 1.0 Structures
• Environment: Xerces2-J 2.10.0
• Assignee: Michael Glavassevich
• Reporter: David Green-Lank
• Created: 11/Sep/10 15:54
• Updated: 12/Sep/10 20:49
• Resolved: 12/Sep/10 20:49

Description

Given the schema (dgreen.xsd):

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd"/>
<xs:element name="root">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="child" type="xs:complexType"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>

Parsing the instance document (dgreen.xml):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<child xsi:type="xs:localComplexType"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
</root>

Code to reproduce (Main.java):

import org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.Validator;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import java.io.File;
public class Main {
public static void main( String... args ) throws Exception

{ XMLSchemaFactory schemaFactory = new XMLSchemaFactory(); Schema schema = schemaFactory.newSchema( new File( "dgreen.xsd" ) ); Validator validator = schema.newValidator(); validator.validate( new StreamSource( new File( "dgreen.xml" ) ) ); }

}

Produces the following:

Exception in thread "main" org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.4.3: Type 'xs:localComplexType' is not validly derived from the type definition, 'complexType', of element 'child'.
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator$XSIErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.reportSchemaError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.getAndCheckXsiType(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.emptyElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.StreamValidatorHelper.validate(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl.validate(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.validation.Validator.validate(Validator.java:127)
at Main.main(Main.java:11)

I believe that localComplexType is validly derived from complexType, or am I missing something? I apologize in advance if I filed this bug in error.