Including schemas and Entity Resolver

Question

I have a MasterSchema.xsd which includes 2 sub-schema's, schema1 and schema 2 using include schemaLocation as shown below
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?><xsd:schema xmlns:xsd = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
elementFormDefault = "qualified">
<xsd:include schemaLocation = "schema1.xsd"/>
<xsd:include schemaLocation = "schema2.xsd"/>
</xsd:schema>
I am using the parser.setProperty to associate the MasterSchema.xsd with the instance. Like so,
parser.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation","MasterSchema.xsd");
I am registering an entity resolver with the parser and the entity resolver handler is an inner class. Shown below
parser.setEntityResolver(new EntityResolver() { 
public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId)
if (systemId.endWith("MasterSchema.xsd") {  
return new InputSource(("/absolute_path/MasterSchema.xsd");
} else if (systemId.endsWith("schema1.xsd")) {
return new InputSource(("/absolute_path/schema1.xsd");
} else if (systemId.endsWith("schema2.xsd")) {
return new InputSource("("/absolute_path/schema2.xsd");
} else {
return null;
The parser finds the MasterSchema.xsd but not the included schema1.xsd and schema2.xsd. Any ideas?
I am using the external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation instead of external-schemaLocation since I am not using any namespace.
Thanks
Mary.

Answer 1

I having the same problem, any resolution?
-alexander