Dear Monks

I have a strange issue in XML parsing with XML::Xerces
we are trying to parse an xml file using an xsd with XML::Xerces::XercesDOMParser (version 260.2).
The corresponding xsd file has optional attributes having default values.
Once we execute the Perl script, we are seeing only the default values of optional attributes even when the attributes are having different values than the defined default value.
Below is an example of my xsd and xml 
sample.xsd
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>

 <xs:complexType name="eventDefinitionsType">
                <xs:sequence>
                        <xs:element name="event-def" type="ems:eventDe
+fType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>

<xs:complexType name="eventDefType">
                <xs:attribute name="name" type="eventDefNameType" use=
+"required"/>
                <xs:attribute name="version" type="eventDefVersionType
+" use="optional" default="1"/>
                <xs:attribute name="severity" type="eventDefSeverityTy
+pe" use="required"/>
        </xs:complexType>

<xs:attribute name="name" type="eventDefNameType" use="required"/>
 <xs:attribute name="severity" type="SeverityType" use="required"/>
 <xs:attribute name="version" type="VersionType" use="optional" defaul
+t="1"/>

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sample.xml
<event-def name="kern_event" version="2" severity="VAR">
                <description>
                        This event is generated when a kernel syslog m
+essage is
                        detected.
                </description>
                <param name="pri" type="INT">
                        <description>
                                The syslog priority of the message
                        </description>
                </param>
                <param name="msg" type="STRING">
                        <description>
                                The text of the message
                        </description>
                </param>
                <corrective-action type="NONE"/>
                <since>6.0</since>
                <deprecated>
                        Deprecated as of version 6.1.2 to address the 
+formatting
                        problem of forwarded syslog messages.
                </deprecated>
</event-def>

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Below is the code I'm using to get the values, even the value of "version" is defined as "2" in the xml, the script gets the value as "1" which is the default for every "version" attribute in xml.
    use strict;
    use warnings;    
    use XML::Xerces;
    use Data::Dumper;
        my $parser = XML::Xerces::XercesDOMParser->new();

        $parser->setDoNamespaces(1);
        $parser->setDoSchema(1);
        $parser->setCreateEntityReferenceNodes(1);
        $parser->setDisableDefaultEntityResolution(0);
        #$parser->setValidationScheme($XML::Xerces::AbstractDOMParser:
+:Val_Always);
        $parser->setErrorHandler(new XML::Xerces::PerlErrorHandler());
    eval { $parser->parse($dn.$xml_file_name); };
        if($@) { XML::Xerces::error($@); }
    my $doc = $parser->getDocument();
    my $event_list = $doc->getElementsByTagName('event-def');
        my $event_count = $event_list->getLength();

        for(my $i=0;$i<$event_count;$i++)
        {
                my $pMap = [];
                my $node = $event_list->item($i);

                my $attr_map = $node->getAttributes();
                my %attr = $node->getAttributes();
                print Dumper(%attr);

    }

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Please suggest how do I get the actual value from the attribute if the attribute is defined as "optional" in the XSD or is there any bug in this version of XML::Xerces.
Thanks for your time.

In reply to Issue with xml parsing using XML::Xerces by Anonymous Monk

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