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

On 9/27/11 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. Hmm while I like the idea of better error reporting, I worry that the mechanism to test schema correctness is going to be very involved. Are you sure it's not easier to just write a few test cases for each parser?