Cannot find the declaration of element 'S:Envelope'
I realize that this question has been asked many times but none of posted solutions helped me either :( So I need to validate soap response against xsd schema using groovy script. Here is my xsd schema: <!-- Published by JAX-WS RI (http://jax-ws.java.net). RI's version is JAX-WS RI 2.2.9-b130926.1035 svn-revision#5f6196f2b90e9460065a4c2f4e30e065b245e51e. --> <xs:schema xmlns:tns="http://localhost:8888/ws/UserData" version="1.0" targetNamespace="http://localhost:8888/ws/UserData" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <xs:import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" schemaLocation="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ "/> <xs:element name="getAllUsers" type="tns:getAllUsers"/> <xs:element name="getAllUsersResponse" type="tns:getAllUsersResponse"/> <xs:element name="getUserSalary" type="tns:getUserSalary"/> <xs:element name="getUserSalaryResponse" type="tns:getUserSalaryResponse"/> <xs:element name="setUsersalary" type="tns:setUsersalary"/> <xs:element name="setUsersalaryResponse" type="tns:setUsersalaryResponse"/> <xs:complexType name="getUserSalary"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="arg0" type="xs:int"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> <xs:complexType name="getUserSalaryResponse"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="return" type="xs:int"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> <xs:complexType name="getAllUsers"> <xs:sequence/> </xs:complexType> <xs:complexType name="getAllUsersResponse"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="return" type="xs:string" nillable="true" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> <xs:complexType name="setUsersalary"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="arg0" type="xs:int"/> <xs:element name="arg1" type="xs:int"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> <xs:complexType name="setUsersalaryResponse"> <xs:sequence/> </xs:complexType> </xs:schema> Here is the Soap request: <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:user="http://localhost:8888/ws/UserData"> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <user:getUserSalary> <arg0>1</arg0> </user:getUserSalary> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> And Soap Response: <S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <S:Body> <ns2:getUserSalaryResponse xmlns:ns2="http://localhost:8888/ws/UserData"> <return>2000</return> </ns2:getUserSalaryResponse> </S:Body> </S:Envelope> And my groovy script for validation: import javax.xml.XMLConstants import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory String response = context.expand('${SOAP Request1#Response}') log.info(response) new File( "C:\\Path\\to\\myschemafile.xsd" ).withReader { xsd -> SchemaFactory.newInstance( XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI ) .newSchema( new StreamSource( xsd ) ) .newValidator() .validate( new StreamSource( new StringReader( response ) ) ) } Any help appreciated as I got stuck right here. Regards.