key/keyref and error reporting

[Mark Brucks <br...@j3s.us>]

We are using the key/keyref  mechanism, but are experiencing some 
difficulties dealing with validation errors.  We are using the method 
CoreDocumentImpl.normalizeDocument() to validate the document, and are 
collecting the org.w3c.dom.DOMError instances that are passed to our 
handleError() method (implementation of the org.w3c.dom.DOMErrorHandler 
interface).

Our problem is that the DOMError instances seem to associate the error 
with the element in the document containing the key/keyref constraint 
and not the element that contains the illegal value.  We are using 
error.getLocation().getRelatedNode() to get the invalid node for the 
error.  The returned node is always the node containing the key/keyref 
constraint (which in our case happens to be the root node).  Is this the 
expected association for this type of validation error?  If so, then how 
do we determine which element contains the invalid reference?

thanks - Mark Brucks



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