XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <wolfgang.hoschek AT mac.com>]

> I would be grateful for pointers as to how to mend this and also ways
> of schema validation which do not require embedding absolute or
> relative addresses within the XML instances.

You could take a look at how this can be simplified with the Nux  
BuilderFactory.getW3CBuilder(...), or similar.

> I appreciate that these
> problems might not occur with approaches such as RELAX-NG but I have
> to have an XSD offering (although I deliberately only use a small
> part of its functionality - it is a nightmare for non-experts and it
> is a pity that our ideas on XML-DEV were not heeded at the time.)

There's RelaxNG support in the BuilderFactory as well. See  
BuilderFactory.getMSVBuilder(...)

Wolfgang.