The expath-pkg.xsd schema is outdated

[daliboris]

expath-pkg.xsd schema is not aligned with code implementation in ExistPkgExtension.java.

For example, XSD defines attribute named abrev, but Java code expects abbrev attribute.

XSD defines namespace as attribute, but Java code expects an element.

[line-o]

The abrev attribute in the xsd looks like a typo as it is the abbreviated form of abbreviation and thus abbrev makes much more sense and all packages I have seen also use the attribute name with two "b"s

[line-o]

The namespace attribute is for exported XQuery library modules and not the package itself. There it is the name-attribute.
I followed the link but could not find the part of the java code that expects a namespace element.

[daliboris]

I followed the link but could not find the part of the java code that expects a namespace element.

I thought that myXSHelper.ensureElement(parser, "namespace"); means that first child element of <xquery> must be namespace element (if it's not import-uri element).

[line-o]

@daliboris I see what you mean. If we find that the namespace of an XQuery library exported by a XAR package was always meant to be an attribute changing this now will get tricky as all existing packages doing this could no longer be installed as they would be invalid.

We would need to

• throw a warning in version 7
• reject packages in version 8