Thank you very much for your reply. I appreciate it.

I've been able to get correct validation by changing the schemaLocation URI to point to the most current version, mods-3-4.xsd However, the document continues to validate incorrectly when pointing at the mods-3-0.xsd. This is strange since the @supplied is nowhere declared in the mods-3-0.xsd docume...

I'm not sure if this is an oXygen issue or not. I have the following simple mods document <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mods xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="3.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmln...

I forgot to mention that I did in fact disable the framework. Didn't change anything.

So in conclusion the schema always contributes to the XML source. Wait a second. Are you trying to tell me that when I run the XPath "//date/@era" on a document that it will return results for optional attributes with default values defined in the DTD regardless of whether or not they are...

Hi. Thanks for the fast reply. I think perhaps though I did not make myself clear. I understand that these are the default value for these attributes. But according to the DTD they are optional attributes. More importantly, they do not appear in the source XML . Yet, when the source is examined in t...

I've run into a problem using 11.2. I'm using it to work with EAD encoded documents though I'm not making use of the framework. I was running a transform to strip out empty text nodes when I noticed that there were attributes present in the results that weren't present in the source XML. The source ...