I have no idea what I could've done to cause this because my time spent programming is stretched out and I've already forgotten what I might've done. But now when I load Eclipse it says:
The errors below were detected when validating the file "web-app_2_5.xsd" via the file "web.xml". In most cases these errors can be detected by validating "web-app_2_5.xsd" directly. However it is possible that errors will only occur when web-app_2_5.xsd is validated in the context of web.xml.
s4s-elt-character: Non-whitespace characters are not allowed in schema elements other than 'xs:appinfo' and 'xs:documentation'. Saw 'JDK 6 XML-related APIs'.
The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.
My first few lines of web.xml looks like so.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
I've read that it could be an error with the server where the file is being retrieved from, or with caching. I've disabled and cleared the cache and as far as I can tell the server is the same everyone else is using unless they switched to an oracle.com url and I haven't found it yet.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
See http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f9sxu . The problem is Oracle, again.
I cannot deploy on SGES 2.1.1 with the connection to the internet. When I turned it off, deploy was slow, but successful. It seems the validator tries to refresh cached schemas and to download them from the schemaLocation URLs.
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd
GET /xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd ...
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently to Location:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/xml/index.html
But there is no such schema!
I will try to find some good solution, but the best is maybe to punch up someone in Oracle ...
EDIT: It is fixed at this time (27.1.2010, 20:00 CET), Oracle returns the schema - you can check it with wget. Browsers are redirected to docs. Nice :-)
Andrew, I'm afraid that your namespace is not correct. I think that version 2.5 should be under javaee namespace (JDK, Java 1.5 and 1.6), not j2ee (J2SDK, Java 1.4).
So replace
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_5.xsd
with
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd
Please take a look at your web.xml
Are there any ´&´-signs, which are not followed by an known XML-Entity? ü are HTML-Entities, not XML-Entites.
or write own entity resolver that will lookup those entities locally
in case, for example, hibernate, it is enough to point schema location in proper way:
excerpt of hibernate's DTDEntityResolver
private static final String USER_NAMESPACE = "classpath://";
...
public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId) {
...
else if ( systemId.startsWith( USER_NAMESPACE ) ) {
...
in case of eclipse, you can point to local xsd in: Preferences-->XML-->XML Catalog.
