Default namespace in XML without prefix?

[Buse]

Greetings,

I have some XML that I'm trying to parse against a schema and I'm getting odd errors.

First, the .xsd schema looks like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
    xmlns="http://xml.example.com/thing"
    targetNamespace="http://xml.example.com/thing">
   .... lots of elements ....
    <xs:element name="CmdServerResponse">
        <xs:complexType>
                ....  more stuff ....
        </xs:complexType>
    </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

Now the XML I'm trying to parse looks like this:

   <CmdServerResponse xmlns="http://xml.example.com/thing">
       ...  lots of tags ....
      </CmdServerResponse>

The parse Fails with:

pyxb.exceptions_.UnrecognizedContentError: UnrecognizedContentError: too few

Now if I change the xml to include the namespace prefix (xmlns:TH), it parses just fine.

   <TH:CmdServerResponse xmlns:TH="http://xml.example.com/thing">
       ...  lots of tags ....
      </TH:CmdServerResponse>

My problem is, my XML is coming from a Legacy source and I can not modify it on that end.  So, Is a default namespace specifier xmlns without a prefix out of spec or is this a bug?  Am I going to have to do some translations and put in that prefix before I let PyXB parse it?

Thank You

[Buse]

Sorry, Those semicolons after the <CmdServerResponse> Tags are not actually there.  Typo.

[Peter A. Bigot]

No, that should all work fine.  The Unrecognized Content Error "too few" is a cryptic indication that the incoming document does not validate: the content model has a minimum occurrence requirement that is not met.  You might try adding

pyxb.RequireValidWhenParsing(false)

to see what happens when validation is turned off.