xerces not finding schema...

[rsanford <rs...@nolimitsystems.com>]

i set validation to true. i have in my document the following:
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="fc.xsd"

just like the xerces documentation says i need to have. i
am getting an exception thrown saying that xerces cannot
find fc.xsd. exception details are at the bottom of this note.

i started out with my schema document in the same directory
as my .jar files. no luck. so i looked at the code where
xerces is looking for the file (hooray for open source!)
and they seem to want to look in:
   System.getProperty("user.dir")

for the schema. so, i put my schema in that directory. still
no luck.

i then tried to explicitly set the path to the schema in my
source code to
   e:\development\classpath\fc.xsd

but i get the same error message. i think that maybe java
has problems with long filenames under win2k so i cut it to
   e:\develo~1\classp~1\fc.xsd

and i still get the same error.

what am i doing wrong?

thanks,

rjsjr

---------------------------------------------------------------
running on win2k SP1
using xerces binary distribution 1.1.3
using sun jdk 1.2.2

[Fatal Error] :0:0: File "fc.xsd" not found.
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at
org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.resolveSchemaGrammar(XMLVal
idator.java:2049)
    at
org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.bindNamespacesToElementAndA
ttributes(XMLValidator.java:1911)
    at
org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.callStartElement(XMLValidat
or.java:697)
    at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.scanElement(XMLDocumentScanne
r.java:1852)
    at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch(XM
LDocumentScanner.java:1000)
    at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.
java:380)
    at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:861)