How does (perl) Xerces validation access http schemas?

This self contained example (pathname: /root/stef/test.pl) works fine on a server A-OK, while it doesn't work on another server B-NOK.

      1 use strict;
      2 use XML::Validate::Xerces;
      3
      4 sub main {
      5     my $rsep = $/;
      6     undef $/;
      7     my $xml = <DATA>;
      8     $/ = $rsep;
      9
     10     warn "working on this xml:[\n$xml]";
     11
     12     my %options;
     13     my $validator = new XML::Validate::Xerces(%options);
     14     my $valid = $validator->validate($xml) ? '' : 'in';
     15     warn "Document is ${valid}valid\n";
     16 }
     17
     18 main();
     19
     20 __DATA__
     21 <?xml version="1.0"?>
     22 <note
     23   xmlns="https://www.w3schools.com"
     24   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     25   xsi:schemaLocation="https://www.w3schools.com http://www.w3schools.com/xml/note.xsd">
     26   <!--
     27   xsi:schemaLocation="https://www.w3schools.com file:///root/stef/note.xsd">
     28   -->
     29   <to>Tove</to>
     30   <from>Jani</from>
     31   <heading>Reminder</heading>
     32   <body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
     33 </note>

If I swap lines 25 and 27 (i.e. I change http://www.w3schools.com/xml/note.xsd to be file:///root/stef/note.xsd) so with the schema as a local file, then it works fine even in B-NOK.

The only difference then seems when the schema is on http.

Note that, the local file was downloaded as wget http://www.w3schools.com/xml/note.xsd so that not only I know that the content of the schema file is the same (local & remote) but also that http:80 works fine to catch stuff out there.

I didn't do anything special to have Xerces working over http:80 for server A-OK. I would then expect to do nothing on server B-NOK to have Xerces going out there and grab the schema.

I didn't find clear info if/how Xerces should be instructed to use http. Neither which mechanism it has built-in, to behave like wget to download URLs. I cannot understand then if I must add some config vars. The admin of server B-NOK told me that he didn't see anything attempting to reach http://www.w3schools.com apart when doing the manual wget. This does seem Xerces doesn't bother at all to get that URL.

Really thank you in advance for any hint.

Solution

From the source:

if ($strict) {
        TRACE("Using strict validation");
        $DOMparser->setValidationScheme("$XML::Xerces::AbstractDOMParser::Val_Auto");
        $DOMparser->setIncludeIgnorableWhitespace(0);
        $DOMparser->setDoSchema(1);
        $DOMparser->setDoNamespaces(1);
        $DOMparser->setValidationSchemaFullChecking(1);
        $DOMparser->setLoadExternalDTD(1);
        $DOMparser->setExitOnFirstFatalError(1);
        $DOMparser->setValidationConstraintFatal(1);
} else {
        TRACE("Using no validation");
        $DOMparser->setValidationScheme("$XML::Xerces::AbstractDOMParser::Val_Never");
        $DOMparser->setDoSchema(0);
        $DOMparser->setDoNamespaces(0);
        $DOMparser->setValidationSchemaFullChecking(0);
        $DOMparser->setLoadExternalDTD(0);
}

Notice the setLoadExternalDTD setting is only true in strict validation mode.

Using the following should do the trick:

my $validator = XML::Validate::Xerces->new( strict_validation => 1 );