Hi Alex, The current element node being visited by the Validator can be queried [1] from your error handler by calling back into it with getProperty() [2].
Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/properties.html#dom.current-element-node [2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/javax/xml/validation/Validator.html#getProperty(java.lang.String) Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex Talis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/27/2008 01:28:12 PM: > Hi, Mukul > > Thanks for your response, but I'm not looking for column and row > numbers in the XML document. I might have been a little ambiguous > in using the word "location". What I need is the reference to the > Node object in the DOM tree that caused the validation error. The > perfect solution would be for the SAXException to contain a > reference to that Node. > > I started looking at the source of org.apache.xerces.impl.xs. > XMLSchemaValidator, and I see a method called processOneAttribute, > which has all this info for attributes. There is also code that > deals with Elements and also has the references to Nodes. I'm going > to study this a little and see if I can do something with it. > > Alex > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mukul Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: j-users@xerces.apache.org > Cc: Alex Talis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 8:36:26 PM > Subject: Re: How to get exact location of schema validation errors? > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Alex Talis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using JAXP to validate a DOM Document with a Validator. When validation > > fails, I get an exception with a pretty descriptive message, but no way to > > pinpoint where in the document the error was found. > > You can set an error handler to a validator. > > for e.g., > > Validator validator = schema.newValidator(); > MyErrorHandler errorHandler = new MyErrorHandler(); > validator.setErrorHandler(errorHandler); > validator.validate(new DOMSource ... > > Then in MyErrorHandler, you should write as, > > class MyErrorHandler implements ErrorHandler { > > public void fatalError(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException { > > } > > public void error(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException { > > } > > public void warning(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException { > > } > > within the methods, fatalError, error or warning, you can get location > of the error/problem as, > > e.getLineNumber() > e.getColumnNumber() > > > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi
