XML file validation with the XSD

[ram shyam]

Hi all,

I am using the following code for validation of a xml file with its corresponding XML schema. The validation is successful even when there is a non-compliance with the schema. For eg., for an element which is declared as
minOccurs and maxOccurs to be "1" (mandatory attribute), and removing this element in the XML document, doesnt show that the file is invalid. But any incorrect semantics are being found through this code (like missing "<"http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", true);
parser.setProperty(
"http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation",
"Latest_DWS.xsd");
parser.parse("promotionPlanChangeMA_ALL.xml");
System.out.print("Successful");
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.print("Problem parsing the file.");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Many thanks in advance!!

[Nitesh Kant]

Hi ram,
Kindly use code tags while posting code.
You have not specified which parser are you using. Every parser has different ways of doing validations and getting the validation results. It is not necessary that if an xml does not adhere to the specified xsd, an exception will be thrown while parsing. For example, xml beans does not validate the xml while parsing but it requires an explicit call to a validate method.

[ram shyam]

Hi,

Sorry the code was not completely copied. I am using DOM parser.

Here is the code I used -

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public static void main (String args[])
{

try
{
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", true);
parser.setProperty(
"http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation",
"Latest_DWS.xsd");
//ErrorChecker errors = new ErrorChecker();
//parser.setErrorHandler(errors);
parser.parse("promotionPlanChangeMA_ALL.xml");
System.out.print("Successful");
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.print("Problem parsing the file.");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

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Please let me know how to proceed.

Thanks in advance!!!