5 Minutes on Java : Validating XML data against a Schema …

October 29, 2011 by Udy Leave a comment

Taking the idea of XML Schema generation : click here to read my previous article.  The XML document can be validated against its schema before processing it.  This is critical, otherwise, the document will be processed without validation which will be a bad process.

To illustrate XML validation, I’m using Apache XML Beans as suggested in my previous blog entry.

Here is the XMLValidator code that will help in validating XML document against a schema.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.xmlbeans.SchemaTypeLoader;
import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlBeans;
import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException;
import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject;
import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlOptions;

public class XMLValidator {
	public boolean validate(File dataFile, File schemaFile) {
		boolean status = false;

		try {
			// Only one schema to validate it against
			XmlObject[] schemas = { XmlObject.Factory.parse(schemaFile,
					new XmlOptions().setLoadLineNumbers()
							.setLoadMessageDigest()) };

			SchemaTypeLoader loader = XmlBeans.compileXsd(schemas, null,
					new XmlOptions().setErrorListener(null)
							.setCompileDownloadUrls().setCompileNoPvrRule());

			XmlObject object = loader
					.parse(dataFile,
							null,
							new XmlOptions()
									.setLoadLineNumbers(XmlOptions.LOAD_LINE_NUMBERS_END_ELEMENT));

			status = object.validate();

			System.out.println("Validation Status: " + status);
		} catch (XmlException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}

		return status;
	}
}