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Been working on trying to have Sussen validate OVAL XML definition files. This should have been pretty straightforward:

public static void ValidateEventHandler
      (object sender, ValidationEventArgs e)
{
	Console.WriteLine ("Bad stuff happened");
	Console.WriteLine (e.Exception.Message);
	Console.WriteLine (e.Exception.LineNumber);
	Console.WriteLine ("Severity:{0}", e.Severity);
}

public static void Validate ()
{
	XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader (filename);
	XmlValidatingReader vr = new XmlValidatingReader (reader);
	XmlSchemaCollection sc = new XmlSchemaCollection();

	sc.Add ("oval", "oval-schema.xsd");
	sc.Add ("redhat", "redhat-schema.xsd");

	vr.Schemas.Add (sc);
	vr.ValidationType = ValidationType.Schema;

	vr.ValidationEventHandler +=
            new ValidationEventHandler (ValidateEventHandler);

	Console.WriteLine ("Starting validation");

	while (vr.Read())
	{
	}

	Console.WriteLine ("Finished validation");
}

When I try and run this under Linux/Mono I get the following:

XmlSchema error: Referenced attribute
group http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval:subtestAttributes
was not found in the corresponding schema.

Under Windows/.NET I get:

Reference to undeclared substitution group affiliation.

I’m not sure why this fails. I looked at the reference OVAL implementation source code but that offered no clues.

Back to the drawing board…

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