XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Jacobs, Robert A. wrote:


>         I did not see anyway to specify the schema to use in validation in the
> 	XOM API so I am making the assumption that the Builder knows how to locate the 
> 	appropriate XMLSchema document based upon the schemaLocation attribute. (Though
>         this raises the question of how the Builder will function within a 
> war file
>         or other situation where the resources must be captured from 
> streams...).

Finally we get to the truth of the matter. XOM has no explicit support 
for W3C schemas. You can do schema validation, but you have to set up 
the parser to do that. XOM doesn't do it automatically. See

http://www.xom.nu/faq.xhtml#d0e339

for instructions on how to set this up.

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