I know I can validate xml-file when I use sax. But can I validate when I use Stax?
There are two ways of XML validation possible with SAX and DOM:
With StAX, validation is possible, but only the first way of doing it.
You can try something like this:
import javax.xml.validation.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stax.*;
import javax.xml.stream.*;
import javax.xml.*;
import java.io.*;
public class StaxValidation {
public static void main (String args[]) throws Exception {
XMLStreamReader reader = XMLInputFactory.newInstance().createXMLStreamReader(new FileInputStream("test.xml"));
SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
Schema schema = factory.newSchema(new File("test.xsd"));
Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
validator.validate(new StAXSource(reader));
//no exception thrown, so valid
System.out.println("Document is valid");
}
}
You can parse and validate with StAX in one pass. Use javax.xml.stream.util.StreamReaderDelegate:
XMLStreamReader reader = XMLInputFactory.newInstance().createXMLStreamReader(new FileInputStream ("test.xml"));
reader = new StreamReaderDelegate(reader) {
public int next() throws XMLStreamException {
int n = super.next();
// process event
return n;
}};
SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
Schema schema = factory.newSchema(new File("test.xsd"));
Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
validator.validate(new StAXSource(reader));
Validator reads test.xml calling reader.next() and you process parsing events as usual.
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