Following up on this issue from January... this temporary fix will become permanent in version 3.3 (soon to come), that is: <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd"/> is changed to: <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/xml.xsd"/> --Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [MODS] Error validating MODS 3 > As a stopgap measure, we've put xml.xsd up on the LC server: > > http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/xml.xsd > > So if you can validate via local copy (copy the MODS schema to your local > system), change the line > > <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" > schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd"/> > > to > > <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" > schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/xml.xsd"/> > > And we'll look at this further (trying to see if we really need to retain > that import). > Ray Denenberg > > --Ray > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shifra Raffel" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 7:15 PM > Subject: [MODS] Error validating MODS 3 > > > As of just today, I'm receiving the following error even when validating > MODS that used to pass schema validation. Can anyone point me in the > right direction to fix this? > > SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd Location: > 4:111 Description: W schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document > 'http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd', because 1) could not find the > document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the > document is not <xsd:schema>. URL: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#schema_reference > SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd Location: > 1096:48 Description: E src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'xml:lang' > to a(n) 'attribute declaration' component. URL: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#src-resolve > SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd Location: > 1096:48 Description: E s4s-elt-must-match.1: The content of 'language' > must match (annotation?, ((attribute | attributeGroup)*, > anyAttribute?)). A problem was found starting at: attribute. > > Thanks, > Shifra > > -- > Shifra Pride Raffel > Web Archiving Programmer > California Digital Library > 415 Twentieth St., 4th Floor > Oakland, CA 94612-2901 > http://cdlib.org > [log in to unmask] > (510) 287-3833