navneet_kaur

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• Mar 27th, 2007

 

static final String JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE =
    "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage";

static final String W3C_XML_SCHEMA =
    "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";  

Next, you configure DocumentBuilderFactory to generate a namespace-aware, validating parser that uses XML Schema:

...
  DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
      DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
  factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
  factory.setValidating(true);
try {
  factory.setAttribute(JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE, W3C_XML_SCHEMA);
} 
catch (IllegalArgumentException x) {
  // Happens if the parser does not support JAXP 1.2
  ...
}  

Because JAXP-compliant parsers are not namespace-aware by default, it is necessary to set the property for schema validation to work. You also set a factory attribute to specify the parser language to use. (For SAX parsing, on the other hand, you set a property on the parser generated by the factory.)