I am having trouble validating serialized data.
Ok, so I started with an XSD file which I got from some third party. Generated C# classes using xsd tool. Then I added
[XmlAttribute("noNamespaceSchemaLocation", Namespace = System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchema.InstanceNamespace)]
public string SchemaLocation = "http://localhost/schemas/AP_Transactions_10052011.xsd";
to the top level object. The URL in question is obviously accessible from my machine where I am running the code. Then I am serializing it using XmlSerializer, which correctly produces
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<BU_AP_Vendor_Invoices xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://local.com/schemas/AP_Transactions_10052011.xsd">
...
</BU_AP_Vendor_Invoices>
So far so good. Now I am trying to validate the file like so:
public static void Validate(TextReader xmlData)
{
XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.ValidationType = ValidationType.Schema;
settings.ValidationFlags = XmlSchemaValidationFlags.ProcessIdentityConstraints | XmlSchemaValidationFlags.ReportValidationWarnings;
settings.ValidationEventHandler += delegate(object sender, ValidationEventArgs args)
{
Console.WriteLine(args.Message);
};
using (XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(xmlData, settings))
while (xmlReader.Read()) ;
}
Which results Could not find schema information for the element 'element name' warnings for every element in the XML file. I assume that means the XSD is simply not being loaded.
I was looking at the XmlReaderSettings.Schemas, but how would the reader know what to add there? I assumed that if I don't add schemas explicitly then magic will simply happen, but that doesn't seem to work.
Question is how to do this properly?
