Hi Creighton,

Both validation errors are caused by the attribute value of "No_linguistic_content," which isn't permitted by the schema.  In this case, there are two bugs:  one in the AT (which is not using the appropriate code, zxx, as far as I understand things (http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/language_code.html#z); and one in the EAD XSD schema (which doesn't list that code as an acceptable value, and so, doesn't fully implement ISO 639-2).

For my purposes, I've been planning to convert this type of output to the following:

<language>No linguistic content</language>

...removing the @langcode value in the process.

Mark



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Subject: Validation error on langcode attribute

I have some EAD exported from the Archivists Toolkit that is not validating in Oxygen.  We have a few photographs where the "No linguistic content" language was selected.  Here is a sample:

  <c id="ref33" level="file">
                 <did>
                     <unittitle>Photograph of a painting of the barque "Scots Bay"</unittitle>
                     <langmaterial>
                         <language langcode="No_linguistic_content"/>
                     </langmaterial>

Oxygen is showing errors with the langcode attribute.  I am getting two different errors:

E [Xerces] cvc-attribute.3: The value 'No_linguistic_content' of attribute 'langcode' on element 'language' is not valid with respect to its type, 'null'.

E [Xerces] cvc-enumeration-valid: Value 'No_linguistic_content' is not facet-valid with respect to enumeration

Any ideas?  I can't see why I am getting two different errors or why the option is included in the AT language drop-down if it doesn't validate.

Cheers,

Creighton

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