Hi Uwe, Have you looked at the JAXP Validation API [1]? You can start validation from any Element node in the DOM with this API. If you need to force a specific element declaration to be used, for example a local one defined within a complex type, you're out of luck with Xerces-J 2.9.1. However, I recently implemented a property [2] which allows you to do that. If you're up for using the current development stream, you can get it from SVN [3].
Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-pcfp.html#faq-4 [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1338 [3] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/source-repository.html Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org q3s38w...@sneakemail.com wrote on 01/21/2009 10:06:46 PM: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if it is possible to validate a singe XML element in a > larger DOM document. > > Using Xerces-J 2.9.1, my program can successfully parse and validate > an XML document into a DOM using it's accompanying schema (of which > I also managed to load it's XSModel). However, I'd like to be able > to revalidate parts of the document after the user changed an > element's attributes. > > Is that at all possible, or am I forced to re-validate the whole DOM? > > How would I go about to do this? > > Cheers, > > Uwe
