Need help in validating an in-memory xml against schemas

[Satyanarayan Pradhan]

Hi,
I am facing problem in validating an inmemory xml string against XSDs (with targetNamespace), need your help on this. Where as I am able to validate an XML file (existing in file system) against the required schemas, i am not able to do so using a String representation of the same XML. I am providing the both versions of my code below. Any suggestion regarding this would be greatly appreciated.

Note: The schams against which i am validating the XML are having targetNamespace defined.


Approach 1: (This works fine) Using Fully qualified XML file name for validation

boolean validateCIPMessage(String pXMLMessageFile, String pSchemaDir){
boolean valid = false;
try{
SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser", true);
builder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", true);
builder.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-schemaLocation",
"file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/CatalogueItemPublicationProxy.xsd");
/*+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/As2Envelope.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/Identification.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/ExtendedTypes.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/Transaction.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/DocumentCommand.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/Command.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/Components.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/CatalogueItemPublication.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/CatalogueItemComponents.xsd");*/

builder.build(pXMLMessageFile); //Fully qualified XML file name as argument
valid = true;

}catch(IOException ioEx){
ioEx.printStackTrace();
}catch(JDOMException jdomEx){
jdomEx.printStackTrace();
}
return valid;
}

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Approach 2: (This does not work) Using XML as a String object for validation
boolean validateCIPMessage(String pXMLMessage, String pSchemaDir){
boolean valid = false;
StringReader stringReader = null;
try{
SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser", true);
builder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", true);
builder.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-schemaLocation",
"file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/CatalogueItemPublicationProxy.xsd");
/*+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/As2Envelope.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/Identification.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/ExtendedTypes.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/Transaction.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/DocumentCommand.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/Command.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/Components.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/CatalogueItemPublication.xsd"
+ " " + "file:///" + pSchemaDir + "/CatalogueItemComponents.xsd");*/

stringReader = new StringReader(pXMLMessage);
builder.build(stringReader);
valid = true;

}catch(IOException ioEx){
ioEx.printStackTrace();
}catch(JDOMException jdomEx){
jdomEx.printStackTrace();
}finally{
stringReader.close();
}
return valid;
}


On execution, this one throws the following error:

org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 1: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'CatalogueItemPublicationProxy.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be
read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
at com.gxs.datasync.ccf.message.XMLMessageEngine.validateCIPMessage(XMLMessageEngine.java:291)



Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Satya

[Satyanarayan Pradhan]

Hi All,
Now when i copied the required schema to the folder from where i am executing the program, I am getting the following error for the method (in approach 2) as described earlier: Can anybody help me out where i am erring?

regards,
Satya

[Satyanarayan Pradhan]

Oops! I forgot to provide the stacktrace.
org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 1: TargetNamespace.1: Expecting namespace 'file:///C:/instdir/jdom-b10/test/ean-ucc/cip/CatalogueItemPublicationProxy.xsd', but the target namespace of the sch
ema document is 'http://www.ean-ucc.org/schemas/1.3.1/eanucc'.
at com.gxs.datasync.ccf.message.XMLMessageEngine.validateCIPMessage(XMLMessageEngine.java:265)
at com.gxs.datasync.ccf.message.XMLMessageEngine.validateMessageAgainstSchema(XMLMessageEngine.java:69)
at com.gxs.datasync.ccf.message.XMLMessageEngine.main(XMLMessageEngine.java:440)
Caused by: org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 1: TargetNamespace.1: Expecting namespace 'file:///C:/instdir/jdom-b10/test
/ean-ucc/cip/CatalogueItemPublicationProxy.xsd', but the target namespace of the schema document is 'http://www.ean-ucc.org/schemas/1.3
.1/eanucc'.
at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:466)
at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:849)
at com.gxs.datasync.ccf.message.XMLMessageEngine.validateCIPMessage(XMLMessageEngine.java:258)
... 2 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: TargetNamespace.1: Expecting namespace 'file:///C:/instdir/jdom-b10/test/ean-ucc/cip/Catalogu
eItemPublicationProxy.xsd', but the target namespace of the schema document is 'http://www.ean-ucc.org/schemas/1.3.1/eanucc'.
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1171)
at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:455)

[Lasse Koskela]

The value for property http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-schemaLocation
should be the form "[namespace] [whitespace] [schemafile]".