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Solve: XML Schema validation ignored when fragment-level conformance is enabled?

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I think I found the answer in this MSKB article oddly enough titled HOW TO: Validate XML Fragments Against an XML Schema in Visual C#.NET The bottom of the article states:

NOTE: Only the type declarations and the top-level elements in the XML schema are validated against an XML schema. Subelements are considered as local and therefore cannot be validated. In order to validate a subelement, declare a top-level element and refer to that.

I believe there is a mistake in that paragraph and the intention is to state top-level elements in the XML~~schema~~ document/fragment are validated against an XML Schema

Because the Microsoft code sample starts its fragment at the top level (instead of arbitrarily inside a document) it works with validation. However in my case I'm taking a mid-document construct.

Correct me if my interpretation is wrong.

Workaround/solution

A workaround is for me to stuff my fragments inside a top level element for the purpose of validation.

In other words if I'm dealing with the XHTML fragment:

<div>MY FRAGMENT</div>

I can wrap it for validation to conform to the XHTML Strict Schema as:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
<head>
<title>HTML fragment enclosed, conforming to XHTML 1.0 Strict Template.</title>
</head>
<body>

    <div>MY FRAGMENT</div>

</body>
</html>

This solution works for me so I'll use it in the interim; whether or not a better solution exists I'm unsure yet.

John K 2010-09-03 19:15:21

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