No matching global declaration available for the validation root

Question

Background

Validate an XML document using a schema.

Problem

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XML Document

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Answer 1

You need to change your XML instance. Your current one says that there is a type called description in the namespace http://www.namespace.org/recipe. However, in your XSD definition, the only types exposed in that namespace are called recipe and descriptionType.

So either define a type called description in the XSD schema, or change your instance so you are referencing the recipe type correctly:

UPDATE This is only half the solution - the other half is in @Aravind's answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8426185/569662