SLD- Cannot find the declaration of element StyledLayerDescriptor

Q: When having my SLD document validated, I keep getting this error:

1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2: <StyledLayerDescriptor version="1.0.0"
3:     xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/sld StyledLayerDescriptor.xsd"
4:     xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/sld"
5:     xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc"
6:     xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
7:     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
---------------------------------------------------------^
       cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element
'StyledLayerDescriptor'.
---------------------------------------------^

Answer:

What this error is saying is that the validator cannot find the StyledLayerDescriptor.xsd document. To resolve this you need to change line 3 above to point to the location of your document:

3:     xsi:schemaLocation="data/capabilities/StyledLayerDescriptor.xsd"

For versions of GeoServer 1.3.0-RC6 and below, the schema is included in data/capabilities/
For versions 1.3.0-RC7 and above, they have been moved to schemas/sld/

The relative path begins where your GeoServer was deployed, at the root of the deployment directory, usually (Geoserver/).

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