error handling in schema validation

[Kiran Bhumana]

I am trying to trap the errors being printed to the screen, during validation by overwriting the methods of the import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;.   The errors look like this, but they don’t seem to be going through the apis Such as,     public void error (SAXParseException e)             throws SAXException     {             System.out.println ("in error ");             errorStringList.append(e.toString());     }     public void fatalError (SAXParseException e)             throws SAXException     {             System.out.println ("in Fatal error ");             errorStringList.append(e.toString());             //          throw e;     }   the errors printed onto the screen are,     shiporder orderperson [Error] shiporder.xml:6:9: cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content starting with elem ent 'name'. The content must match '(("":orderperson),("":shipto),("":item){1-UNBOUND ED})'. name address city country [Fatal Error] shiporder.xml:10:4: The element type "shiporder" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</shiporder>". org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "shiporder" must be terminated by the  matching end-tag "</shiporder>".     What am I missing something here ?   Thank you, Kiran B.