XML Signature element is not declared

Question

I created XSD using Visual StudioXML Tools. And I use following C# code to validate XML and facing this error.

Error

The element is not declared 'http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#:Signature'.

So my question is how to fix it because in edit mode XML is valid 100%?

Thank you!

C#

  private void buttonValidateXML_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {            
                bool result = IsValidXml2(textBoxSignedXML.Text, textBoxXSDFile.Text, "");
                rtbValidationResult.Text = result.ToString();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                rtbValidationResult.Text = ex.Message;
            }
        }

public static bool IsValidXml2(string xmlFilePath, string xsdFilePath, string namespaceName)
        {
            var xdoc = XDocument.Load(xmlFilePath);
            var schemas = new XmlSchemaSet();
            schemas.Add(namespaceName, xsdFilePath);

            bool result = true;
            xdoc.Validate(schemas, (sender, e) =>
            {
                result = false;
            });

            return result;
        }

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Envelope version="1">
  <Deposit>
    <ClientId>1234567890123</ClientId>
    <Account>0045678</Account>
    <Currency>USD</Currency>
    <Total>5000.00</Total>
    <SignedDate>2016-02-15</SignedDate>     
    <Cheques>
      <Cheque>
        <Images>
          <Front>
            SUkqAAgAAAAPAP4ABAABAAAAAAAAAAABBAABAAAAfQUAAAEBBAABAAAAWgIAAAIBAwABAAAAAQAA
            AAMBAwABAAAABAAAAAYBAwABAAAAAAAAAA4BAgAhAAAA0AAAABEBBAABAAAAAAIAABIBAwABAAAA
            AQAAABUBAwABAAAAAQAAABYBBAABAAAAWgIAABcBBAABAAAAvi8AABoBBQABAAAAAAEAABsBBQAB
            EdF0fRG0R0YRdH2R2XzaI6OxRQAQAQA=
          </Front>
          <Back>
            SUkqAAgAAAAOAP4ABAABAAAAAAAAAAABBAABAAAAgQUAAAEBBAABAAAAVAIAAAIBAwABAAAAAQAA
            AAMBAwABAAAABAAAAAYBAwABAAAAAAAAABEBBAABAAAAAAEAABIBAwABAAAAAQAAABUBAwABAAAA
            AQAAABYBBAABAAAAVAIAABcBBAABAAAAcggAABoBBQABAAAAwAAAABsBBQABAAAA0AAAACgBAwAB
            AAAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAyAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMgAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
            AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP//LZCdO1f7iRrKXTqt//pePx///9lNoL487Ajh
            jFyzUrtwg+6gg9VmvCIWA42XMwziSUEEw7GoIcSUWZ3Y0oKmGR3LToGVC2LhkK6H4sorQNRUMLjH
            LTGzlpv3RFCcH4NLB9hvLTmD8tMgOsG+WVaR5AweTcEWMMfaDQxDIx5NwVQx8OMPeGFHLSUlLcSS
            1JtNV/9/rrffuO+h9bx////kfvABABAA
          </Back>
        </Images>
        <MicrCodeCmc>123456789012345678901234567890</MicrCodeCmc>
        <Amount>465.22</Amount>
        <PaymentDate>2016-02-15</PaymentDate>
        <EmissionDate>2016-02-15</EmissionDate>
      </Cheque>
      <Cheque>
        <Images>
          <Front>
            SUkqAAgAAAAPAP4ABAABAAAAAAAAAAABBAABAAAAfQUAAAEBBAABAAAAWgIAAAIBAwABAAAAAQAA
            AAMBAwABAAAABAAAAAYBAwABAAAAAAAAAA4BAgAhAAAA0AAAABEBBAABAAAAAAIAABIBAwABAAAA
            AQAAABUBAwABAAAAAQAAABYBBAABAAAAWgIAABcBBAABAAAAvi8AABoBBQABAAAAAAEAABsBBQAB
            EdF0fRG0R0YRdH2R2XzaI6OxRQAQAQA=
          </Front>
          <Back>
            SUkqAAgAAAAOAP4ABAABAAAAAAAAAAABBAABAAAAgQUAAAEBBAABAAAAVAIAAAIBAwABAAAAAQAA
            AAMBAwABAAAABAAAAAYBAwABAAAAAAAAABEBBAABAAAAAAEAABIBAwABAAAAAQAAABUBAwABAAAA
            AQAAABYBBAABAAAAVAIAABcBBAABAAAAcggAABoBBQABAAAAwAAAABsBBQABAAAA0AAAACgBAwAB
            AAAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAyAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMgAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
            AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP//LZCdO1f7iRrKXTqt//pePx///9lNoL487Ajh
            jFyzUrtwg+6gg9VmvCIWA42XMwziSUEEw7GoIcSUWZ3Y0oKmGR3LToGVC2LhkK6H4sorQNRUMLjH
            LTGzlpv3RFCcH4NLB9hvLTmD8tMgOsG+WVaR5AweTcEWMMfaDQxDIx5NwVQx8OMPeGFHLSUlLcSS
            1JtNV/9/rrffuO+h9bx////kfvABABAA
          </Back>
        </Images>
        <MicrCodeCmc>123456789012345678901234567890</MicrCodeCmc>
        <Amount>99999999999</Amount>
        <PaymentDate>2016-02-15</PaymentDate>
        <EmissionDate>2016-02-15</EmissionDate>
      </Cheque>
    </Cheques>
  </Deposit>   
  <Signature xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
    <SignedInfo>
      <CanonicalizationMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315" />
      <SignatureMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1" />
      <Reference URI="">
        <Transforms>
          <Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature" />
        </Transforms>
        <DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1" />
        <DigestValue>TVO2Gssf5TUdXFYG/PrHDyqYFqs=</DigestValue>
      </Reference>
    </SignedInfo>
    <SignatureValue>KwQInN03ywa0u0t4HedxgE1fOU7XYLQScKuQ6vdYoIZME5Hm5jpFeX2ORA2U+BO7JNjmFilTW05VntS3k98YCZhNXH9Iw/YEC1nw4JJLzygYbbCftkiY5v5+b494mQPryCtscwTtbziW6QilILSFDGmco2JopRfVe+qfdN/JyB1HXhUfApyNEsw/cJLj6aaz5ivN1sLFgAlikbwCNpF+mRnZY5u7/S8uT8WhEyK32EcatdjzKbP0PwnIlumhOpUMerWeLZ7neuJq6R/IuFgZ1Y5U6ppyuOjhtiHp4glC/uNUS/y7jMzG29thWBkEtSE9AcEt2IZ0HOEZE3kdFXufjA==</SignatureValue>
  </Signature>
</Envelope>

XSD

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
           xmlns:tns="http://example.com/ct-required"
           xmlns:xmime="http://www.w3.org/2005/05/xmlmime" >

  <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2005/05/xmlmime"
            schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2005/05/xmlmime"/>

    <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" schemaLocation="xmldsig-core-schema.xsd"/>

  <xs:simpleType name="PNGPictureType"
          xmime:expectedContentTypes="image/png">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:base64Binary"/>
  </xs:simpleType>

  <xs:simpleType name="Money">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:decimal">
      <xs:totalDigits value="13" />
      <xs:fractionDigits value="2" />
      <xs:minInclusive value="0.00" />
      <xs:maxInclusive value="99999999999.99" />
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

  <xs:simpleType name="Currency">
        <xs:annotation>
            <xs:documentation>Currency Code: ISO 4217</xs:documentation>
        </xs:annotation>
        <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
            <xs:enumeration value="USD" />
            <xs:enumeration value="UYU" />
            <xs:minLength value="3" />
            <xs:maxLength value="3" />
        </xs:restriction>
    </xs:simpleType>

  <xs:element name="Envelope">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="Deposit" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1">
          <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
              <xs:element name="ClientId" type="xs:unsignedLong" />
              <xs:element name="Account" type="xs:unsignedLong" />
              <xs:element name="Currency" type="Currency" />
              <xs:element name="Total" type="Money" />
              <xs:element name="SignedDate" type="xs:date" />
              <xs:element name="Cheques">
                <xs:complexType>
                  <xs:sequence>
                    <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Cheque">
                      <xs:complexType>
                        <xs:sequence>
                          <xs:element name="Images">
                            <xs:complexType>
                              <xs:sequence>
                                <xs:element name="Front" type="PNGPictureType" />
                                <xs:element name="Back" type="PNGPictureType" />
                              </xs:sequence>
                            </xs:complexType>
                          </xs:element>
                          <xs:element name="MicrCodeCmc" type="xs:string" />
                          <xs:element name="Amount" type="Money" />
                          <xs:element name="PaymentDate" type="xs:date" />
                          <xs:element name="EmissionDate" type="xs:date" />
                        </xs:sequence>
                      </xs:complexType>
                    </xs:element>
                  </xs:sequence>
                </xs:complexType>
              </xs:element>
            </xs:sequence>
          </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
        <xs:element xmlns:q1="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" ref="q1:Signature" />
      </xs:sequence>
      <xs:attribute name="version" type="xs:unsignedByte" use="required" />
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

UPDATE #1

I have tried different approaches but no joy.

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And even if I reference XSD to local file it does not work. I see the same error.

 <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xmldsig-core-20020212 file:///C:/Temp/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd"/>

UPDATE #2

Even I use this approach no joy.

 public static bool IsValidXml1(string xmlFilePath, string xsdFilePath, string namespaceName)
        {
            XDocument xdoc = null;
            var settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
            settings.DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Ignore;
            settings.ProhibitDtd = false;

            try
            {
                using (XmlReader xr = XmlReader.Create(xmlFilePath, settings))
                {
                    xdoc = XDocument.Load(xr);
                    var schemas = new XmlSchemaSet();
                    schemas.Add(namespaceName, xsdFilePath);
                    schemas.Add(@"http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#", @"D:\Temp\xmldsig-core-schema.xsd");
                    xdoc.Validate(schemas, null);

                    return true;
                }                
            }
            catch (XmlSchemaValidationException ex)
            {
                // throw;
            }

            return false;
        }

kjhughes · Accepted Answer

You are very close. In your XSD, simply replace,

<xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" />

with

<xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" 
           schemaLocation=
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xmldsig-core-20020212/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd"/>

and your XSD will no longer have that error, and your XML will be valid against your XSD.

Explanation

XSDs can be composed via xs:import and xs:include. In both cases, the location of the referenced XSD has to be specified with a required schemaLocation attribute, which was missing in OP's original XSD. By adding xs:import/@schemaLocation as shown above, the error is eliminated.

Update #1:

When you switched to use a local XSD, you made a mistake in your xs:import:

Change

 <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
            schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xmldsig-core-20020212 
                            file:///C:/Temp/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd"/>

to

 <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
            schemaLocation="file:///C:/Temp/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd"/>

(You were following an example for @xsi:schemaLocation in XML documents which has namespace-location pairs; xs:import/@schemaLocation is different.)

Update #2:

So my question is how to fix it because in edit mode XML is valid 100%?

Perhaps this is the disconnect. Editing an XML file in Visual Studio does not automatically validate it against an XSD. You need to do that in code or via a validating XML editor such Oxygen XML Editor or XML Spy.

Also, your C# validation code may have issues. See Validating an XML against referenced XSD in C#

Evk · Answer

If you don't want to change anything to xsd or xml - do the following:

(optional) Download xsd from w3 site and save to local disk. W3 site is VERY slow because a lot of software worldwide constantly request those schemas. If you will use that xsd directly - you will often fail by timeout. Some validation tools already have such schemas cached locally, but not .NET validator.

Modify your validation method from UPDATE 2 the following way:

public static bool IsValidXml1(string xmlFilePath, string xsdFilePath, string namespaceName)
{
    XDocument xdoc = null;
    var settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
    settings.DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Ignore;

    try
    {
        using (XmlReader xr = XmlReader.Create(xmlFilePath, settings))
        {
            xdoc = XDocument.Load(xr);
            var schemas = new XmlSchemaSet();                    
            schemas.Add(namespaceName, xsdFilePath);                   
            using (var fs = File.OpenRead(@"D:\Temp\xmldsig-core-schema.xsd")) 
            using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(fs, new XmlReaderSettings() {
                DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Ignore // important
            })) {
                schemas.Add(@"http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#", reader);
            }

            xdoc.Validate(schemas, null);

            return true;
        }
    }
    catch (XmlSchemaValidationException ex)
    {
        // throw;
    }

    return false;
}

You have to add that schema using XmlReader and not directly, because if you add directly (like in your update 2) - it will fail to parse DTD block, because when you add XmlSchema to XmlSchemaSet using url (or file path) - it will read that file using XmlReaderSettings with DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Prohibit. We need to change that to DtdProcessing.Ignore or DtdProcessing.Parse. After that your validation method will work fine for target xsd and xml file, without any changes (and will correctly fail in case xml does not match xsd).

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