You could try writing a filter which sits in between the parser and the validator that modifies the namespace URIs passed through startElement() and endElement(). Take a look at XMLFilter [1] and XMLFilterImpl [2].
Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/xml/sax/XMLFilter.html [2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/xml/sax/helpers/XMLFilterImpl.html Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Vila Christophe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/23/2007 02:03:03 PM: > Hi all, > > I have to write a module that parses very big XML files (>10MB) having > always the same structure. I have written a schema and would like to > validate these XML files with it... But of course, the XML files do not > declare any schema (the root element is <order> instead of <order > xmlns="mySchemaName" > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="mySchemaName mySchemeURI">). > > I tried the validation API of JAXP (see the following piece of code), > but it only works if I declare at least the schema name in the XML file > (that is to say <tag xmlns="mySchemaName">) > > SchemaFactory schemaFactory = > SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI); > Schema schema = schemaFactory.newSchema(new StreamSource(new > File("myschema.xsd"))); > schema.newValidator().validate(new StreamSource(new File("big.xml"))); > > I also tried ValidatorHandler, but I don't know how to add the xmlns > attribute when I am parsing the root element. > > So, is there a way to : > - force the validation against my schema without modifying the XML files > (no declaration of scheme name and location) > - validate and parse at the same time (I don't want to read the XML > files twice) > - use only SAX way (because of the XML file size) > > Thanks ! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
