Validate XML constructed with DOM parser with XSD

Objective: A XML document is parsed thru DOM and needs to be validated with associated XSD for validity as per the XML schema. Following code snippet shows how:

Code:

public static List validateDOMWithXSD(File domSource, File schemaSource) {
try { // Step 1: create a DocumentBuilderFactory and configure it
DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl .newInstance();
// Set namespaceAware to true to get a DOM Level 2 tree with nodes // containing namesapce information. This is necessary because the // default value from JAXP 1.0 was defined to be false. documentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
// Set the validation mode to either: no validation, DTD // validation, or XSD validation documentBuilderFactory.setValidating(true); try { documentBuilderFactory.setAttribute( JAXPConstants.JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE, JAXPConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA); } catch (IllegalArgumentException x) { // This can happen if the parser does not support JAXP 1.2 log .error("Error: JAXP DocumentBuilderFactory attribute not recognized: " + JAXPConstants.JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE); log.error("Check to see if parser conforms to JAXP 1.2 spec."); XMLParseError parseError = new XMLParseError(); parseError .setErrorMessage("Error: JAXP DocumentBuilderFactory attribute not recognized: " + JAXPConstants.JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE + "\n Check to see if parser conforms to JAXP 1.2 spec.");
errorList = new ArrayList(1); errorList.add(parseError); return errorList; } // Set the schema source, if any. See the JAXP 1.2 maintenance // update specification for more complex usages of this feature.
documentBuilderFactory.setAttribute( JAXPConstants.JAXP_SCHEMA_SOURCE, schemaSource);
// Optional: set various configuration options documentBuilderFactory.setIgnoringComments(false); // documentBuilderFactory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
// documentBuilderFactory.setCoalescing(true);
// The opposite of creating entity ref nodes is expanding them // inline // documentBuilderFactory.setExpandEntityReferences(!createEntityRefs);
// Step 2: create a DocumentBuilder that satisfies the constraints // specified by the DocumentBuilderFactory DocumentBuilder db = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
// Set an ErrorHandler before parsing errorList = new ArrayList(); db.setErrorHandler(new ParseErrorHandler(errorList));
// Step 3: parse the input file db.parse(domSource);
// return the error list return errorList; } catch (SAXException exception) { return errorList; } catch (Exception exception) { exception.printStackTrace(); } }