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

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.