JSTL - Problem parsing XML file w/ XML schema declarations

Question

I'm having trouble parsing an xml document that contains XML schema declarations in the root element. I've included 2 snippets, the XML files they're supposed to parse, and their output below. The first one works and the second one doesn't. Could someone please tell me why? I find it hard to believe that no one's run into this before.
I'm running Tomcat 5.5 and I'm using JSP 2.0, jakarta standard taglibs jars (1.1.2), jdk 1.5.0_04, and the Xalan 2.7.0 jars.
Here's the first snippet:
<c:import url="/WEB-INF/config/schools.xml" var="xml" />
<x:parse doc="${xml}" var="schoolList"/>
There are <x:out select="count($schoolList//school)"/> schools in the file:<br/>
<x:forEach select="$schoolList//school">
     <x:out select="name"/><br/>
</x:forEach>it parses the following xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<schools>
     <school id="34033">
          <name>Tumwater Middle School</name>
          <district>Tumwater</district>
          <type>middle</type>
          <active>false</active>
     </school>
     <school id="17001">
          <name>Garfield High School</name>
          <district>Seattle</district>
          <type>high</type>
          <active>true</active>
     </school>
     <school id="00023">
          <name>Tigard High School</name>
          <district>Tigard-Tualatin</district>
          <type>high</type>
          <active>true</active>
     </school>
</schools>and it outputs:
There are 3 schools in the file:
Tumwater Middle School
Garfield High School
Tigard High School-----------------------------------------
The second snippet:
<c:import url="/WEB-INF/config/schools2.xml" var="xml2" />
<x:parse doc="${xml2}" var="schoolList2"/>
There are <x:out select="count($schoolList2//school)"/> schools in the file:<br/>
<x:forEach select="$schoolList2//school">
     <x:out select="name"/><br/>
</x:forEach>parses this xml file (note the xml schema declarations):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<schools xmlns="http://www.serenus.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.serenus.com schools.xsd">
     <school id="34033">
          <name>Tumwater Middle School</name>
          <district>Tumwater</district>
          <type>middle</type>
          <active>false</active>
     </school>
     <school id="17001">
          <name>Garfield High School</name>
          <district>Seattle</district>
          <type>high</type>
          <active>true</active>
     </school>
     <school id="00023">
          <name>Tigard High School</name>
          <district>Tigard-Tualatin</district>
          <type>high</type>
          <active>true</active>
     </school>
</schools>and its output is:
There are 0 schools in the file:That's it! No errors at all! I'm 100% certain the variable names, filenames, etc. are correct. I've looked everywhere for an existing answer to this problem, but I can't find one. Is this a known issue? Please help.
-Ben

Answer 1

Hi Ben,
I got exactly the same problem and also could not find any solution.
Did you find a way out for this problem meanwhile?
Any help is welcome!