Error in RM Schema

["McGarry, Donald P." <dmcgarry@mitre.org>]

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I found an error in one of the RM Schemas.  In EDXL-RMRequestResource.xsd line 21-29 there is the following:

<element name="Funding" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">

            <complexType>

                        <sequence>

                                    <!-- One(or both) of the FundCode and FundingInfo elements is required -->

                                    <element name="FundCode" type="rm:FundCodeType" minOccurs="0"/>

                                    <element name="FundingInfo" type="rm:FundingInfoType" minOccurs="0"/>

                        </sequence>

            </complexType>

</element>

 

This differs from all the other schemas that explicitly declare Funding as type=”rm:FundingType”.

The problem with this is that child elements of a Funding Section of a RequestResource Message will be in the urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:EDXL:RM:1.0:msg instead of the urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:EDXL:RM:1.0.

I have reproduced this validation error in 3 different XML validation products (XMLSpy 2010, MSXML 2.0, and Oxygen)[Screenshot attached of the first].

 

 

It looks as though a special case was trying to be made for this particular message for requiring funding information.  However, there is no way around the namespace collision, and I am unsure why this was done any different than the other messages, because Funding is optional.

Proposed change:

<element name="Funding" type="rm:FundingType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />

 

If we want to handle the one or both being required we should be doing that in the rm:FundingType Type.  How can we make this change to the “official RM Schema file”?

 

Don McGarry

The MITRE Corp.

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dmcgarry@mitre.org

 

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