This little project should demonstrate what I think is a bug in Nokogiri on jruby. The setup is validating a document against a schema that includes another schema. The included schema is specified with a schemaLocation that's a relative file path to the parent schema. This project was created as a test case of this issue on tenderlove/nokogiri.

The xmllint from the libxml2 package can validate the document like so:

$ xmllint --noout --schemas/CCOM-ML.xsd asset.xml
asset.xml validates

I've written a validate.rb file that shows the steps to validate the document from nokogiri. The outline is this:

1. Instantiate a Nokogiri::XML::Schema object
2. Instantiate a Nokogiri::XML document object
3. Call the schema's validate passing in the document

These steps behave differently based on using MRI 1.9.2 and JRuby 1.5.6.

Using MRI, the schema object fails to instantiate because nokogiri doesn't know about the cct:IDType. If you chdir into the schemas directory and instantiate the schema object it loads just fine. When you try to validate the document, it doesn't matter what directory you're in. The schema has already been loaded and fully "initialized".

$ rvm --create use 1.9.2@nokogiri-bug
Using /Users/dalcorn/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0 with gemset
nokogiri-bug
$ gem install nokogiri --pre
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.5.0.beta.3
1 gem installed
$ ruby -rubygems validate.rb
instantiating the schema without chdir... element decl. '{http://www.example.com/CCOM-ML}SerialNumber', attribute 'type': The QName value '{urn:un:unece:uncefact:documentation:standard:CoreComponentType:2}IDType' does not resolve to a(n) type definition.
instantiating the schema with chdir... done.
trying to validate without chdir... done.
trying to validate with Dir.chdir... done.

JRuby, on the other hand, doesn't care what directory you're in when you instantiate the schema. It doesn't seem to really initialize the schema object. At document validation time, it will complain about the undefined cct:IDType.

$ rvm --create use jruby@nokogiri-bug
Using /Users/dalcorn/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.5.6 with gemset
nokogiri-bug
$ gem install nokogiri --pre
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.5.0.beta.3-java
1 gem installed
$ ruby -rubygems validate.rb
instantiating the schema without chdir... done.
trying to validate without chdir... Could not parse document: src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'cct:IDType' to a(n) 'type definition' component. done.
trying to validate with Dir.chdir... Could not parse document: src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'cct:IDType' to a(n) 'type definition' component. done.

The bug is that nokogiri-java doesn't care what directory you're in when you do the validate. Even if you chdir into the schemas, nokogiri still can't import the cct.xsd.

I don't really understand it. However, I suspect it's got something to do with the Java code that executes in the Thread context that may not know about jruby's Dir.chdir.

Here's a bug on jruby's jira where Charles Nutter basically says JRuby doesn't chdir well, but the best case is to always chdir with full paths. However, the Dir.block is able to report the correct directory when asking Dir.pwd. Even when not in a block, Dir.pwd still seems to report the right directory. I think this is really a bug in Nokogiri's Java code not respecting JRuby's pwd.