Hi Michael, This is excellent, thank you very much for you insight. I'll check these out and will hopefully be in a position to update in due course.
Thanks Lewis ________________________________________ From: Michael Glavassevich [mrgla...@ca.ibm.com] Sent: 15 December 2011 04:12 To: xalan-j-users@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: Xalan-J for XML Pipeline? Hi Lewis, Have you had a look at TransformerHandler [1] and ValidatorHandler [2]? You can connect these together to form a pipeline which does a transformation and validates the result (and/or source). Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/javax/xml/transform/sax/TransformerHandler.html [2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/javax/xml/validation/ValidatorHandler.html Michael Glavassevich XML Technologies and WAS Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org "McGibbney, Lewis John" <lewis.mcgibb...@gcu.ac.uk> wrote on 12/14/2011 09:00:03 AM: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm working on a reasonably large HTML project which I wish to > convert to XML. So far so good. It is essential that the resulting > XML conforms to an XSD which I have obtained. Before undertaking the > transformation it would be nice to > 1) Validate the source HTML document ensuring it conforms to the XSD > 2) Validate the resulting XML output with the XSD. > > So far I have reviewed Saxon as a possible tool, however > unfortunately schema validation is only offered in the enterprise > edition, therefore I wonder if Xalan-J is a feasible alternative? > Having looked on the user@ lists I've not seen much apart from this > thread [1] to suggest that it is. > > Finally, it would be great if there was some tool which indicates > where an error is during the validation and transformation, however > from what I gather this is not the case, can anyone confirm? > > Thank you very much in advance. > Lewis > > [1] http://marc.info/?l=xalan-j-users&m=122546865125251&w=2 > > Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, > number SC021474 > > Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative > of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009. > http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/ > name,6219,en.html > > Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early > Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities > Scotland partners. > http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/ > name,15691,en.html Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service<http://www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems> Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474 Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009. http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland partners. http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html
