Hi,

I would like to support this request, but broaden it so that its usefulness is bigger.
The functionality that I think would be much more useful is to have not only the possibility to validate in memory a given DOM-tree (for which there indeed exists a work-around -however, see below), but the functionality that I'm really looking for is to ask a given DOM-node which attributes/child elements are allowed (and how many) according to the schema.  This would allow you to interactively edit a DOM-tree, with suggestions which edits are possible.
>From the outside this looks a related topic: if validation fails, I would like to know what the correct options are that would lead to validation.
But here I might be completely wrong. I would like to hear Boris' opinion.
Anyway, an api that supports this type f functionalty would be extremely useful.

Now on the in-memory validation:  my experience is that this works ok if the validation succeeds. However, if validation fails and you want to print details of what and where the error occurs, I always get core dumps. So instead I serialise a DOM-tree first to a temporary file on disk, the do the validation with possible error reporting on this temporary file.
I would love to see how it is supposed to be done. Earlier requests along this line in this newsgroup have not lead to any answer, but the problem remains..



Kind Regards,
Bertwim


Vladimir Loubenski wrote:
Hi Boris,
Michael described Xerces-J functionality to validate a DOM in-memory that we need for.
Could you consider to implement it in a near future?
 
Thank you,

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From: Michael Glavassevich [mailto:mrgla...@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: July 30, 2010 11:21 AM
To: c-dev@xerces.apache.org
Subject: Re: Validate the data contained in a DOM tree

Boris,

Xerces-J has had the ability to validate a DOM in-memory for years. It behaves as if you serialized and then reparsed the document with schema validation enabled except that it's much more efficient (firing SAX like events to the schema validator from a walk of the DOM tree). I think that's what Vladimir is asking for, not fail-fast setters / continuous validation which seems to be the topic in the post you referenced.

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org

Boris Kolpackov <bo...@codesynthesis.com> wrote on 07/30/2010 11:07:24 AM:

> Hi Vladimir,
>
> Vladimir Loubenski <vloub...@opentext.com> writes:
>
> > My understanding that single way to validate data (Validation against
> > XML schema) in a DOM tree is to create the DOM document, write it back
> > as XML and re-parse it with validation turned on. Are there plans to
> > support validation direct from the DOM tree?
>
> No, there are no plans to support this at the moment. It is also
> questionable how useful this feature will be since it is not clear
> what one can do when a validation error has been detected. There
> are some errors that will be hard/impossible to fix programmatically
> (say, pattern validation error). For a more detailed discussion of
> this topic, see the following post:
>
> http://www.codesynthesis.com/pipermail/xsd-users/2008-January/001443.html
>
> Boris
>
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