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package org.apache.karaf.features.internal;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLConnection;

import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
import javax.xml.validation.Validator;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

/**
 * Utility class which fires XML Schema validation.
 */
public class FeatureValidationUtil {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(FeatureValidationUtil.class);

    /**
     * Runs schema validation.
     * 
     * @param uri Uri to validate.
     * @throws Exception When validation fails.
     */
    public static void validate(URI uri) throws Exception {
        URLConnection conn = null;
        try {
            conn = uri.toURL().openConnection();
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("invalid URI: " + uri, e);
        }
        conn.setDefaultUseCaches(false);

        InputStream stream = conn.getInputStream();

        // load document and check the root element for namespace declaration
        DocumentBuilderFactory dFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        dFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        Document doc = dFactory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(stream);

        if ("features".equals(doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName()) && doc.getDocumentElement().getNamespaceURI() == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Features repository without namespace is not allowed");
        }

        SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
        // root element has namespace - we can use schema validation
        Schema schema = factory.newSchema(new StreamSource(FeatureValidationUtil.class
            .getResourceAsStream("/org/apache/karaf/features/karaf-features-1.0.0.xsd")));

        // create schema by reading it from an XSD file:
        Validator validator = schema.newValidator();

        try {
            validator.validate(new DOMSource(doc));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unable to validate " + uri, e);
        }        
    }

}

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@@ -2423,98 +2423,168 @@
     
-throw new IllegalArgumentException(%22Features repository without namespace is not allowed%22)
+log.warn(%22Old style feature file without namespace found (URI: %7B%7D). This format is deprecated and support for it will soon be removed%22, uri);%0A            return
 ;%0A  

Set the features validation optional