XML catalog is loaded by LemMinX but not used to resolve the XSD in Wild Web Developer (works in VS Code with the same catalog.xml)

[nxglhez]

I am trying to understand why the XML catalog resolution behaves differently between VS Code (LemMinX 0.31.2 it seems) and Wild Web Developer (LemMinX 0.31.0 it seems), using the same catalog.xml and the same XML file.

Reproducer project: issue.tar.gz

It is a multi module Maven project. The catalog is at .vscode/catalog.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.1//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.1/catalog.dtd">
<catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog">
  <uri name="http://www.acme.org/ns/dataset" uri="../schemas/src/main/resources/schemas/schema.xsd" />
</catalog>

The schema declares dataset as an xs:string element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
           xmlns="http://www.acme.org/ns/dataset"
           targetNamespace="http://www.acme.org/ns/dataset"
           elementFormDefault="qualified">

  <xs:element name="dataset" type="xs:string" />

</xs:schema>

And the XML file to validate is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dataset xmlns="http://www.acme.org/ns/dataset" x="a">
  <A />
</dataset>

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the project in VS Code with the redhat.vscode-xml extension, catalog registered through xml.catalogs.
2. Open dataset.xml.
3. Open the same project in Eclipse, with Wild Web Developer, catalog registered in Window > Preferences > XML (Wild Web Developer) > Catalogs.
4. Open dataset.xml.

Expected result:

The catalog resolves the namespace http://www.acme.org/ns/dataset to the XSD and validation reports that dataset cannot have children or attributes, since it is declared as xs:string.

Actual result in VS Code:

cvc-type.3.1.2: Element 'dataset' is a simple type, so it must have no element information item [children].
cvc-type.3.1.1: Element 'dataset' is a simple type, so it cannot have attributes, excepting those whose namespace name is identical to 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' and whose [local name] is one of 'type', 'nil', 'schemaLocation' or 'noNamespaceSchemaLocation'. However, the attribute, 'x' was found.

This is correct and matches the schema.

Actual result in Eclipse with Wild Web Developer:

No error at all, and the "Bind to grammar/schema ..." action is proposed, meaning no grammar was found for the document. The catalog entry is simply not used to resolve the XSD.

If I add an explicit xsi:schemaLocation pointing to the same XSD:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dataset xmlns="http://www.acme.org/ns/dataset"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.acme.org/ns/dataset ../../../../schemas/src/main/resources/schemas/schema.xsd"  x="a">
  <A />
</dataset>

I get the same errors as VS Code, so the XSD itself is fine and reachable. The problem is specific to the catalog based resolution in Eclipse. I would rather not have to reference the XSD directly in every file, that defeats the purpose of the catalog.

I enabled the LSP logs and the catalog is indeed known to the server at initialize time:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "1",
  "method": "initialize",
  "params": {
    "processId": 30448,
    "rootPath": "/C:/repos/lemminx-catalog/xmlfiles/",
    "rootUri": "file:///C:/repos/lemminx-catalog/xmlfiles/",
    "initializationOptions": {
      "settings": {
        "xml": {
          "maven": {},
          "downloadExternalResources": {
            "enabled": true
          },
          "catalogs": [
            "C:\\eclipse-lemminx-catalog\\ws\\.metadata\\.plugins\\org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml\\system-catalog.xml",
            "C:\\repos\\lemminx-catalog\\.vscode\\catalog.xml"
          ],
          "format": {
            "xsiSchemaLocationSplit": "onPair",
            "maxLineWidth": 150,
            "preserveAttributeLineBreaks": true,
            "closingBracketNewLine": false,
            "grammarAwareFormatting": false,
            "joinContentLines": false,
            "splitAttributes": "preserve",
            "joinCDATALines": false,
            "preserveSpace": [
              "xsl:text",
              "xsl:comment",
              "xsl:processing-instruction",
              "literallayout",
              "programlisting",
              "screen",
              "synopsis",
              "pre",
              "xd:pre"
            ],
            "trimFinalNewlines": false,
            "emptyElements": "ignore",
            "spaceBeforeEmptyCloseTag": true,
            "splitAttributesIndentSize": 2,
            "preservedNewlines": 2,
            "enforceQuoteStyle": "ignore",
            "joinCommentLines": false,
            "insertFinalNewline": false,
            "trimTrailingWhitespace": false
          },
          "codeLens": {
            "enabled": true
          },
          "foldings": {
            "includeClosingTagInFold": true
          },
          "validation": {
            "schema": {
              "enabled": "always"
            },
            "noGrammar": "hint",
            "resolveExternalEntities": false,
            "enabled": true,
            "namespaces": {
              "enabled": "onNamespaceEncountered"
            },
            "disallowDocTypeDecl": false
          }
        }
      },
      "extendedClientCapabilities": {
        "bindingWizardSupport": true,
        "codeLens": {
          "codeLensKind": {
            "valueSet": [
              "association"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "capabilities": {
      "workspace": {
        "applyEdit": true,
        "workspaceEdit": {
          "documentChanges": true,
          "resourceOperations": [
            "create",
            "delete",
            "rename"
          ],
          "failureHandling": "undo",
          "changeAnnotationSupport": {
            "groupsOnLabel": true
          }
        },
        "didChangeWatchedFiles": {
          "relativePatternSupport": true,
          "dynamicRegistration": true
        },
        "symbol": {
          "tagSupport": { "valueSet": [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 ] },
          "dynamicRegistration": true
        },
        "executeCommand": {
          "dynamicRegistration": true
        },
        "workspaceFolders": true,
        "configuration": true,
        "codeLens": {
          "refreshSupport": true
        },
        "fileOperations": {
          "willCreate": true,
          "willRename": true,
          "willDelete": true
        }
      },
      "textDocument": {
        "synchronization": {
          "willSave": true,
          "willSaveWaitUntil": true,
          "didSave": true
        },
        "completion": {
          "completionItem": {
            "snippetSupport": true,
            "documentationFormat": [ "markdown", "plaintext" ],
            "resolveSupport": { "properties": [ "documentation", "detail", "additionalTextEdits" ] },
            "insertTextModeSupport": { "valueSet": [ 1, 2 ] }
          },
          "contextSupport": true,
          "insertTextMode": 2,
          "completionList": { "itemDefaults": [ "commitCharacters", "editRange", "insertTextFormat", "insertTextMode" ] },
          "dynamicRegistration": true
        },
        "hover": {
          "contentFormat": [
            "markdown",
            "plaintext"
          ]
        },
        "signatureHelp": {},
        "references": {},
        "documentHighlight": {},
        "documentSymbol": {
          "symbolKind": { "valueSet": [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 ] },
          "hierarchicalDocumentSymbolSupport": true,
          "tagSupport": { "valueSet": [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 ] }
        },
        "formatting": {
          "dynamicRegistration": true
        },
        "rangeFormatting": {},
        "onTypeFormatting": {
          "dynamicRegistration": true
        },
        "definition": {
          "linkSupport": true
        },
        "typeDefinition": {
          "linkSupport": true
        },
        "codeAction": {
          "codeActionLiteralSupport": {
            "codeActionKind": { "valueSet": [ "quickfix", "refactor", "refactor.extract", "refactor.inline", "refactor.rewrite", "source", "source.organizeImports" ] }
          },
          "dataSupport": true,
          "resolveSupport": {
            "properties": [
              "edit"
            ]
          },
          "dynamicRegistration": true
        },
        "codeLens": {},
        "documentLink": {},
        "colorProvider": {},
        "rename": {
          "prepareSupport": true
        },
        "publishDiagnostics": {},
        "foldingRange": {
          "lineFoldingOnly": true,
          "foldingRangeKind": {
            "valueSet": [
              "comment",
              "imports",
              "region"
            ]
          },
          "foldingRange": {
            "collapsedText": false
          }
        },
        "callHierarchy": {},
        "selectionRange": {},
        "inlayHint": {}
      },
      "window": {
        "workDoneProgress": true,
        "showMessage": {},
        "showDocument": {
          "support": true
        }
      }
    },
    "clientInfo": {
      "name": "Eclipse IDE",
      "version": "0.19.13.202605190944"
    },
    "trace": "off",
    "workspaceFolders": [
      {
        "uri": "file:///C:/eclipse-lemminx-catalog/ws/languageServers-log/",
        "name": "languageServers-log"
      },
      {
        "uri": "file:///C:/repos/lemminx-catalog/",
        "name": "parent"
      },
      {
        "uri": "file:///C:/repos/lemminx-catalog/schemas/",
        "name": "schemas"
      },
      {
        "uri": "file:///C:/repos/lemminx-catalog/xmlfiles/",
        "name": "xmlfiles"
      }
    ]
  }
}

So both the catalog path and its content are received by the server, but nothing indicates that the catalog is actually used or rejected when I open dataset.xml. No error, no warning, just the "no grammar" hint.

Environment:

Eclipse 2026-06, Java 21, installed through Oomph.

Feature	Version	Id	Provider
Wild Web Developer HTML, CSS, JSON, Yaml, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node tools	1.4.0.202511281851	org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.feature.feature.group	Eclipse Wild Web Developer project
Wild Web Developer XML tools	1.3.8.202511131403	org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper.xml.feature.feature.group	Eclipse Wild Web Developer project