schema-validation.md

Validation against declared schema

Version: 1

Purpose: Verify that all XML documents validate against the XML schema(s) declared in the schemaLocation attribute.

Prerequisites

Test method

• Verify for each XML document that in the root element a schemaLocation attribute is provided. Otherwise report noSchemaLocation
• Validate each document against the schema(s) specified in the xsi:schemaLocation attribute using strict XML schema validation. Otherwise report invalidSchema.

Reference(s):

• TG DS Template IR requirement Article 3
• TG DS Template IR requirement Article 4 (2)
• TG DS Template IR requirement Article 4 (3)
• TG DS Template IR requirement Article 5 (2)
• TG DS Template IR requirement Article 5 (3)
• TG DS Template IR requirement Article 6 (5)
• TG DS Template IR requirement Article 9 (1)
• TG DS Template TG requirement 1
• TG DS Template TG requirement 6

Test type: Automated

Messages

Identifier	Message text (parameters start with '$')
noSchemaLocation	XML document '$filename': The root element does not have an xsi:schemaLocation attribute. The document cannot be validated.
invalidSchema	XML document '$filename': The document is not valid. The XML parser has identified the following issues: $issues

Contextual XPath references

The namespace prefixes used as described in README.md.

Abbreviation	XPath expression
schemaLocation	/*[@xsi:schemaLocation]