US Spec SIF_Provision unable to handle TestAccommodation Object

While working with a client we found that the TestAccommodation object does not validate within the SIF_Provision message. Check this out for yourself by pointing your browser to http://compliance.sifinfo.org/validate/ and paste this in.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SIF_Message Version="2.3" xmlns="http://www.sifinfo.org/infrastructure/2.x">
<SIF_Provision>
<SIF_Header>
<SIF_MsgId>BD5070007BDF012D83B2001FF3502BAD</SIF_MsgId>
<SIF_Timestamp>2010-07-27T15:04:43</SIF_Timestamp>
<SIF_SourceId>Zone1Provider</SIF_SourceId>
</SIF_Header>
<SIF_ProvideObjects>
<SIF_Object ObjectName="TestAccommodation"/>
</SIF_ProvideObjects>
<SIF_SubscribeObjects/>
<SIF_PublishAddObjects>
<SIF_Object ObjectName="TestAccommodation"/>
</SIF_PublishAddObjects>
<SIF_PublishChangeObjects>
<SIF_Object ObjectName="TestAccommodation"/>
</SIF_PublishChangeObjects>
<SIF_PublishDeleteObjects>
<SIF_Object ObjectName="TestAccommodation"/>
</SIF_PublishDeleteObjects>
<SIF_RequestObjects/>
<SIF_RespondObjects>
<SIF_Object ObjectName="TestAccommodation"/>
</SIF_RespondObjects>
</SIF_Provision>
</SIF_Message>

As of July 27th 2010 this won’t validate. Now try this XML SIF Message:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SIF_Message Version="2.3" xmlns="http://www.sifinfo.org/infrastructure/2.x">
<SIF_Provision>
<SIF_Header>
<SIF_MsgId>23D54AA07BE1012D83B3001FF3502BAD</SIF_MsgId>
<SIF_Timestamp>2010-07-27T15:14:45</SIF_Timestamp>
<SIF_SourceId>Zone1Provider</SIF_SourceId>
</SIF_Header>
<SIF_ProvideObjects>
<SIF_Object ObjectName="TestAccommodation"/>
</SIF_ProvideObjects>
<SIF_SubscribeObjects/>
<SIF_PublishAddObjects/>
<SIF_PublishChangeObjects/>
<SIF_PublishDeleteObjects/>
<SIF_RequestObjects/>
<SIF_RespondObjects/>
</SIF_Provision>
</SIF_Message>


It validates successfully!

This is interesting – We are reporting this to the SIF association immediately. This error is within SIF 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 as far as we can tell. If you are able to provide it you should be able to Publish! With so many objects its hard to imagine that we don’t find more of these… but the SIF Association does a great job.

To fix this you will need to update your XSD SIF_SubscribeObjectNamesType. We have updated the XSD for OpenZIS.