Hi, I have a problem that I can't re-parse the xml document after adding nodes to it so that I can retrieve the new elements type.
here is the code: public static void main(String[] args){ DocumentBuilderFactory parserFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI); Source schemaFile = new StreamSource(new File("test.xsd")); Schema schema = factory.newSchema(schemaFile); parserFactory.setSchema(schema); DocumentBuilder parser = parserFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document document = parser.parse(new File("test.xml")); Node promoTag = document.getElementsByTagName("promotion_period").item(0); // get element Element endElm = document.createElement("end_date"); // add new element endElm.setTextContent("2007-05-10"); promoTag.appendChild(endElm); ((Element) document.getElementsByTagName("end_date").item(0)).getSchemaTypeInfo().getTypeName(); // [1] returns null } At point #1: I think I need something like re-parse or re-validate the document so that I can attach the added node with its type. I have the same issue if I'm working with the XERCES ElementPSVI. I don't know what is missing or how can I do that. Thanks in advance Omar Mostafa