note 89893 added to domdocument.schemavalidate

Initial situation: - Debian Lenny - Apache 2 with PHP 5.2.6 - libxml 2.6.32 Problem: While trying to validate a manually created (!) DOMDocument against an existing XML Schema, I ran into a warning like the one below. Validation fails, even though the document IS valid and the command line tool xmllint confirms this (even with libxml 2.6.32, so this must be a problem with DOM). The validation works fine with libxml 2.7.3. Warning: DOMDocument::schemaValidate() [domdocument.schemavalidate]: Element 'YourRootElementName': No matching global declaration available for the validation root. in /var/www/YourFile.php on line X Solution: As libxml 2.7.3 is not provided for Debian Lenny yet and this problem seems to be caused by DOM (s.o.), I currently use the following workaround on my machines. DOM obviously has some namespace problems with documents, that have been created manually (i.e. they were not loaded from a file). So my workaround is saving the DOMDocument temporarily, re-loading it and then validating the temporary DOMDocument. Strangely enough the validation of the same document (= same content) now works. Sure, creating a temporary file is not a nice solution, but unless this bug is fixed, this workaround should do just fine. <?php // Works with libxml 2.7.3 and higher. public function isValid() { return $this->dom->schemaValidate('schema.xsd'); } // Workaround for prior libxml versions, e.g. 2.6.32. public function isValid() { // Create temporary file and save manually created DOMDocument. $tempFile = time() . '-' . rand() . '-document.tmp'; $this->dom->save($tempFile); // Create temporary DOMDocument and re-load content from file. $tempDom = new DOMDocument(); $tempDom->load($tempFile); // Delete temporary file. if (is_file($tempFile)) { unlink($tempFile); } // Validate temporary DOMDocument. return $tempDom->schemaValidate('schema.xsd'); } ?> ---- Server IP: 217.13.201.10 Probable Submitter: 212.37.47.66 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.schemavalidate.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/89893 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89893/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89893/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89893/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89893/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89893/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89893/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89893 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/89893 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php