xml schema validation error “prefix is not bound”

Question

I am entirely new to XML Schema and am trying to get the basics down. Here is my xml schema code (filename: example1.xsd):

Answer 1

In your XML, you either need to:

A. Remove the sample: prefix from sample:school

or

B. Change the xmlns="http://www.example.com" to xmlns:sample="http://www.example.com" and add the sample: prefix to the rest of the elements (<sample:element1>, <sample:element2>, etc.)

Answer 2

It's not direct answer to your question, but I stumbled here while trying to solve my own problem, so maybe it will help someone too.

My own error 'The prefix ns2 is not bound' surfaced after upgrading from Weblogic 10.3.6 to 12.2.1.2.

In higher version default JAXB Implementation is Moxy, so I had to change javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext to com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.

How to specify JAXBContext implementation in weblogic 12.1.3

Answer 3

When you get an error like this, the simplest way is to add the prefix declaration; in your case, as per schema, just add to your root element the following attribute:

xmlns:sample="http://www.example.com"

Also, this is rather related with XML namespaces.