Hi Hans-Jürgen,

using function 'validate:xsd-report' I notice a surprising behaviour:

• if supplying the XSD via URI, it works as expected
• if supplying the XSD as node, the imports cannot be resolved

Is this a known behaviour and intended?

Yes, this is known: Validation is done by an external process (i.e., not performed by BaseX itself). In order to pass supplied nodes to this pocess, they are serialized and written to a temporary file, which will have a different base URI.

We cannot simply supply the underlying base URI, as there is no guarantee that the resource will still exist, as illustrated by the following example:

let $schema := 'schema1.xsd', $schema-doc := doc($schema) return ( file:delete($schema), validate:xsd-report('doc.xml', $schema) )

Hope this helps, Christian

________________________________ Von: Hans-Juergen Rennau via BaseX-Talk basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. August 2025 20:42 An: BaseX basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Betreff: [basex-talk] validate:xsd-report - resolving imports

Dear BaseX people,

using function 'validate:xsd-report' I notice a surprising behaviour:

- if supplying the XSD via URI, it works as expected - if supplying the XSD as node, the imports cannot be resolved

Is this a known behaviour and intended?

In case it is not, see PS for simple code reproducing the behaviour.

Kind regards, Hans-Jürgen

PS: (1) doc.xml <doc b:att="99" xmlns:b="http://basex.org"/>

(2) schema1.xsd <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:b="http://basex.org" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xs:import namespace="http://basex.org" schemaLocation="schema2.xsd"/> <xs:element name="doc"> xs:complexType <xs:attribute ref="b:att"/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:schema>

(3) schema2.xsd <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://basex.org" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xs:attribute name="att" type="xs:integer"/> </xs:schema>

(4) validate.xq validate:xsd-report('doc.xml', 'schema1.xsd'), '===', validate:xsd-report('doc.xml', doc('schema1.xsd'))