Xsd:dateTime formatting problems

Question

This is driving me nuts. I've been playing around with JAXB and it has worked great so far. Until now.
I have an xml file with this little block
   <timestamps>
      <created>2000-03-04T20:00:00Z</created>
      <last_modified>2003-03-14T02:20:02-05:00</last_modified>
   </timestamps>and in my xsd file I have
    <xsd:element name="timestamps" type="timestampsType" />
  <xsd:complexType name="timestampsType">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="created" type="xsd:dateTime" />
      <xsd:element name="last_modified" type="xsd:dateTime" />
    </xsd:sequence>
  </xsd:complexType>Previously I had used just xsd:date instead of xsd:dateTime, and that worked fine, but then I realized that I needed more timing precision so I made the change. I can generate my java files with xjc without any problems. But when I go to unmarshall the xml file with validation on, I always get a complaint about the formatting of my date time values. More specificaly I see:
"com.sun.msv.verifier.ValidityViolation: "2000-03-04T20:00:00Z" does not satisfy the "date" type"
despite the fact that I copied this date directly from the XSD specification page at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/
And believe me, I've tried about a dozen other variations.... Different dates, with extra milliseconds, with and without the timezone part at the end. I get the same error every time. So what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Thanks, but unfortunately that did not do the trick. Interestingly enough everything works perfectly, all other things the same, when I let Validation be set to false.