[Xml-compile] Which elemet produces error: illegal value `' for type {http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}float ?

[Mark Overmeer]

* Radek Šťastný (dedkus at gmail.com) [131119 11:43]:

Taken from subject:
       error: illegal value `' for type {http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}float

The full error message contains a path (some kind of location indication) if
there is more to say about it.  It seems the element you read only has a type,
not a name.  It happens.

Apparently, the message expects a float but find a blank field, hence
validation fails.

> code looks like this (simplified)
> 
>     my $xsd = 'file.xsd';
>     my $schema = XML::Compile::Schema->new();
>     $schema->addSchemaDirs('somedir');
>       $schema->importDefinitions("$xsd-file");

You do not always need the addSchemaDirs().  Probably this is enough in
your case:
        my $schema = XML::Compile::Schema->new("$somedir/$xsd");

Better start with ::Cache
        my $schema = XML::Compile::Cache->new("$somedir/$xsd"
          , prefixes => [...]
          );

>       my $xml = "$path/$file";
>       my $reader = $schema->compile (
>          READER => 'rootelement',
>          elements_qualified => 'NONE');

do you really need to overrule the elementFormDefault of the schema?

>     my $data=$reader->("$xml");

or directly $reader->("$path/$file");

> thanks for help, documentation is complex and above my understandig a
> little.

XML Schema's are quite large, with too many (mis)features.  But you
probably do not need much.
-- 
Regards,

               MarkOv

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