Here's my test case.
I set the validation feature in the parser and then parse the XML document.
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation";, true);
parser.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/warn-on-undecla
red-elemdef", true);
parser.parse("personal.xml");
The DTD is as such.
<?xml encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<!ELEMENT personnel (person)+>
<!ELEMENT person (name,email*)>
<!ATTLIST person id ID #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT email (#PCDATA)>
The XML is as such.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE personnel SYSTEM "personal.dtd">
<personnel>
<people>
<person id="one.worker">
<name>Bob</name>
<email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
</person>
<person id="two.worker">
<name>Joe</name>
<email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
</person>
</people>
</personnel>
The XML document is intentionally invalid.
The parser parses out the DOM and I am able to retrieve the Document object.
No error is thrown and the DOM is incorrect.
What might be the problem or am I misunderstanding something?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Blevins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 5:29 PM
> To: Xerces-Dev
> Subject: [Xerces-J] Validating a DOM doc against the DTD
>
>
> How would I go about validating a DOM against the DTD?
>
> I tried using org.apache.xerces.parsers.RevalidatingDOMParser and then
> calling validate on the base element. This returned null even
> though there
> were discrepancies between the Element and the DTD.
>
> Is there another way to go about this or am I missing something
> basic in the
> RevalidatingDOMParser?
>
> -Dave
>
>
