Checking Wellformed-ness
Before a document can be called XML and not csv, simple text or any other format, it needs to support the basic rules as defined by the XML Recommendation, when it adheres to these rules it is said to be Wellformed XML.Code Fragments: DOM, SAX, dom4j, XOM
DOM
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(false); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); builder.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Document document = builder.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
SAX
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(false); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
dom4j
SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); reader.setValidation(false); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.read("contacts.xml");
XOM
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(false); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Builder builder = new Builder(reader); builder.build("contacts.xml");
Validate using internal DTD
Parse the input document using only the DTD (contacts.dtd
), as defined by the DOCTYPE in the input document, for validation.
Code Fragments: DOM, SAX, dom4j, XOM
DOM
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); builder.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Document document = builder.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
SAX
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
dom4j
SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); reader.setValidation(true); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.read("contacts.xml");
XOM
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Builder builder = new Builder(reader); builder.build("contacts.xml");
Validate using internal XSD
Parse the input document using only the XML Schema (contacts.xsd
), as defined by the noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute in the input document, for validation.
Code Fragments: DOM, SAX, dom4j, XOM
DOM
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); factory.setAttribute("http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); builder.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Document document = builder.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
SAX
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); parser.setProperty("http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
dom4j
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); parser.setProperty("http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(parser.getXMLReader()); reader.setValidation(true); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.read("contacts.xml");
XOM
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); parser.setProperty("http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Builder builder = new Builder(reader); builder.build("contacts.xml");
Validate using external Schema
Parse the input document using the schema (contacts.xsd
), as defined externally by the source-code.
Code Fragments: DOM, SAX, dom4j, XOM
DOM
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(false); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); factory.setSchema(schemaFactory.newSchema( new Source[] {new StreamSource("contacts.xsd")})); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); builder.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Document document = builder.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
SAX
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(false); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); factory.setSchema(schemaFactory.newSchema( new Source[] {new StreamSource("contacts.xsd")})); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
dom4j
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); factory.setSchema(schemaFactory.newSchema( new Source[] {new StreamSource("contacts.xsd")})); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(parser.getXMLReader()); reader.setValidation(false); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.read("contacts.xml");
XOM
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(false); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); factory.setSchema(schemaFactory.newSchema( new Source[] {new StreamSource("contacts.xsd")})); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Builder builder = new Builder(reader); builder.build("contacts.xml");
Validate using internal DTD and external Schema
Parse the input document using the schema (contacts.xsd
), as defined externally by the source-code and the DTD (contacts.dtd
), as defined by the DOCTYPE in the input document, for validation.
Code Fragments: DOM, SAX, dom4j, XOM
DOM
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); factory.setSchema(schemaFactory.newSchema( new Source[] {new StreamSource("contacts.xsd")})); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); builder.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Document document = builder.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
SAX
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); factory.setSchema(schemaFactory.newSchema( new Source[] {new StreamSource("contacts.xsd")})); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.parse(new InputSource("document.xml"));
dom4j
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); factory.setSchema(schemaFactory.newSchema( new Source[] {new StreamSource("contacts.xsd")})); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(parser.getXMLReader()); reader.setValidation(true); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); reader.read("contacts.xml");
XOM
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); factory.setSchema(schemaFactory.newSchema( new Source[] {new StreamSource("contacts.xsd")})); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader(); reader.setErrorHandler(new SimpleErrorHandler()); Builder builder = new Builder(reader); builder.build("contacts.xml");