How to Fix Error: "Could Not Find Schema Information for the Attribute/Element" by Creating Schema

How to fix Error: Could not find schema information for the attribute/element by creating schema

UPDATE Sept 2015

This answer continues to get upvotes, so I'm going to leave it here since it seems to be helpful to some people, but please check out the other answers from @reexmonkey and @Pressacco first. They may provide better results.

ORIGINAL ANSWER

Give this a shot:

1. In Visual Studio, open your app.config or web.config file.
2. Go to the "XML" menu and select "Create Schema". This action should create a new file called "app.xsd" or "web.xsd".
3. Save that file to your disk.
4. Go back to your app.config or web.config and in the edit window, right click and select properties. From there, make sure the xsd you just generated is referenced in the Schemas property. If it's not there then add it.

That should cause those messages to disappear.

I saved my web.xsd in the root of my web folder (which might not be the best place for it, but just for demonstration purposes) and my Schemas property looks like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
Visual Studio
10.0\xml\Schemas\DotNetConfig.xsd" "Web.xsd"

How to resolve Could not find schema information for the element/attribute xxx?

I configured the app.config with the tool for EntLib configuration and set up my LoggingConfiguration block. Then I copied this into the DotNetConfig.xsd. Of course, it does not cover all attributes, only the ones I added but it does not display those annoying info messages anymore.

<xs:element name="loggingConfiguration">
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="listeners">
        <xs:complexType>
          <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="add">
              <xs:complexType>
                <xs:attribute name="fileName" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="footer" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="formatter" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="header" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="rollFileExistsBehavior" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="rollInterval" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="rollSizeKB" type="xs:unsignedByte" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="timeStampPattern" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="listenerDataType" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="traceOutputOptions" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="filter" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="type" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
              </xs:complexType>
            </xs:element>
          </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
      </xs:element>
      <xs:element name="formatters">
        <xs:complexType>
          <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="add">
              <xs:complexType>
                <xs:attribute name="template" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="type" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
              </xs:complexType>
            </xs:element>
          </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
      </xs:element>
      <xs:element name="logFilters">
        <xs:complexType>
          <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="add">
              <xs:complexType>
                <xs:attribute name="enabled" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="type" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
              </xs:complexType>
            </xs:element>
          </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
      </xs:element>
      <xs:element name="categorySources">
        <xs:complexType>
          <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="add">
              <xs:complexType>
                <xs:sequence>
                  <xs:element name="listeners">
                    <xs:complexType>
                      <xs:sequence>
                        <xs:element name="add">
                          <xs:complexType>
                            <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                          </xs:complexType>
                        </xs:element>
                      </xs:sequence>
                    </xs:complexType>
                  </xs:element>
                </xs:sequence>
                <xs:attribute name="switchValue" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
              </xs:complexType>
            </xs:element>
          </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
      </xs:element>
      <xs:element name="specialSources">
        <xs:complexType>
          <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="allEvents">
              <xs:complexType>
                <xs:attribute name="switchValue" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
              </xs:complexType>
            </xs:element>
            <xs:element name="notProcessed">
              <xs:complexType>
                <xs:attribute name="switchValue" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
              </xs:complexType>
            </xs:element>
            <xs:element name="errors">
              <xs:complexType>
                <xs:sequence>
                  <xs:element name="listeners">
                    <xs:complexType>
                      <xs:sequence>
                        <xs:element name="add">
                          <xs:complexType>
                            <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                          </xs:complexType>
                        </xs:element>
                      </xs:sequence>
                    </xs:complexType>
                  </xs:element>
                </xs:sequence>
                <xs:attribute name="switchValue" type="xs:string" use="required" />
                <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
              </xs:complexType>
            </xs:element>
          </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
      </xs:element>
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
    <xs:attribute name="tracingEnabled" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
    <xs:attribute name="defaultCategory" type="xs:string" use="required" />
    <xs:attribute name="logWarningsWhenNoCategoriesMatch" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

XML validation by XSD: Could not find schema information for the element

Either add a default namespace to your document

<FirstSection FirstSectionAttr="5" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

Or register your schema without a namespace

settings.Schemas.Add(null, xsdPath);

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