[jboss-as7-dev] Validation of XML Parsers / Schemas

[Anil Saldhana]

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On 09/27/2011 01:07 PM, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
> I am not talking about validation of XML documents here, I am talking
> about validation of the parser implementations with AS7.
>
> Regards,
> Darran Lofthouse.
>
>
> On 09/27/2011 07:03 PM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
>> IMO schema validation is needed when:
>> a) users want to enable it to debug an issue.
>> b) testsuite needs to validate schemas.
>>
>> In both these instances, the Jaxp Validation API is sufficient if the
>> schema files are known. Would it be useful to just enable jaxp
>> validation (on demand) before the subsystem parsing kicks in?
>>
>> On 09/27/2011 11:42 AM, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
>>> The topic of how to validate the XML parsers or the schemas crops up
>>> every now and again.
>>>
>>> I have been having a couple of ideas of how we could at some point look
>>> into this: -
>>>
>>> http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-17243
>>>
>>> The proposed idea actually covers two parts: -
>>>       - A wrapper around the existing API that allows the parsers to just
>>> request the elements / attributes they require and leave the wrapper to
>>> handle all the error handling we currently have distributed across the
>>> parsers.
>>>
>>>      - This then allows us during testing to validate that the calls match
>>> the structure defined in the schema.
>>>
>>> I may try prototyping something other the weekend but thought I would
>>> put this out there and see if anyone has any thoughts / comments.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Darran Lofthouse.