[#IDEADEV-5534] Internal IDEA validation does not understand xs:any

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Internal IDEA validation does not understand xs:any

Created: 10 Apr 06 17:46 Updated: 17 Apr 06 18:21

Component/s:

XML editing

Fix Version/s:

Demetra 5231, 5.1.2

Original Estimate:	Unknown	Remaining Estimate:	Unknown	Time Spent:	Unknown
File Attachments:	1. anyBug.xml (0.2 kb) 2. anyBug.xsd (0.4 kb)
Environment:	IDEA 5.1.1 Windows XP bundled JRE 1.5

Build:	4,192
Fixed in build:	5,227
Severity:	Medium

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This bug is related to ~~IDEADEV-5076~~, which I thought was related close enough that the fix there would fix this, but it didn't – IDEA is marking xs:any content as red when it doesn't need to. The right-click->validate validates successfully, and the XML is loaded properly in the applications, which also validates against the schema as well using Xerces. I believe it also passes XMLSpy's tests.

The actual files I am working with are a lot more complicated than this, but the following example reproduces the problem.

anyBug.xsd

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
	<xs:element name="root">
		<xs:complexType>
			<xs:sequence>
				<xs:any namespace="##any" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
			</xs:sequence>
		</xs:complexType>
	</xs:element>
</xs:schema>

anybug.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="anyBug.xsd">
	<aValidTag>

	</aValidTag>
</root>

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Jason Winnebeck - 10 Apr 06 17:51

Formatting fixes

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Maxim Mossienko - 10 Apr 06 20:38

IDEA complains that aValidTag has no definition (in ~~IDEADEV-5076~~ there is one). Why this message is not appropriate for you?

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Jason Winnebeck - 10 Apr 06 21:17

It bothers me because IDEA marks up the file in red everywhere and marks the file as having errors, when in fact there are no errors in the file, because xs:any can stand for any tag. An XML validator normally would pass this file with no errors or warnings. In much larger files the red markup will be everywhere in the file and it is annoying.

The message may be appropriate, but then is there a way to get IDEA to stop marking those tags as errors? Really that is my problem is that all of the errors are visually distracting when editing the document and also make it harder to find "real" errors. Even if it were possible to turn off validation completely on the file (but IDEA still uses the schema to auto-complete tags if possbible), it might be a better situtation than what happens now.