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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Domingo,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The schema as written assumes that the imported schemas (lines 19-21) are present locally. You can either write absolute URLs in there like so:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-HT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" schemaLocation="https://ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Codebook/2.5/XMLSchema/ddi-xhtml11.xsd"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-HT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <xs:import namespace="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" schemaLocation="https://www.dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/dcterms.xsd"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Or download and add the three referenced files to your local schema location which will of course be much faster if you do this a lot (I’ve never validated XML
using Notepad++ but in emacs/nxml you’d just have the schema in a folder and would add the other schemas to the same folder.)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The ICPSR sample DDI then validates successfully.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hope that helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Sebastian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> ddi-users-bounces@icpsr.umich.edu <ddi-users-bounces@icpsr.umich.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>UniData - Bicocca Data Archive<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 4, 2019 7:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DDI-users] Unable to validate XML against the DDI 2.5 schema<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">since we started working again after the summer break (this week) we can no longer validate the DDI 2.5 XML files produced through our
archival system. We thought it was a problem with our DDI files, but the same error occurs trying to validate the example file on the DDI Alliance website (<a href="https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ddi25/studies/4245">https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ddi25/studies/4245</a>).
The error is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Codebook/2.5/XMLSchema/codebook.xsd',
because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Notepad++ and xmlvalidation.com were used for validation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Do any of you have the same problem?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Domingo Scisci<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Domingo Scisci (PhD)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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