Fair enough ... In that case, you could use the org.dom4j.io.DocumentInputSource and do something like this:
public void validate( Document document) throws ... { SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating( true); factory.setNamespaceAware( true); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); parser.setProperty( "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); parser.setProperty( "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaSource", "file:test.xsd"); parser.getXMLReader().parse( new DocumentInputSource( document)); } Or use the org.dom4j.io.SAXValidator class: public void validate( Document document) throws ... { SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating( true); factory.setNamespaceAware( true); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); parser.setProperty( "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); parser.setProperty( "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaSource", "file:test.xsd"); SAXValidator validator = new SAXValidator( parser.getXMLReader()); validator.validate( document); } Regards, Edwin http://www.edankert.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user