at present no you would need to identify a mechanism to load a 3rd party schema such as what axis uses in codegen.thirdparty.schema property seen here codegen.thirdparty.schema=xmime.xsd,soap-enc.xsd which is processed by a loadAdditionalSchema method here
/** * Loading the external schemas. * @return element array consisting of the the DOM element objects that represent schemas */ private Element[] loadAdditionalSchemas() { //load additional schemas String[] schemaNames = ConfigPropertyFileLoader.getThirdPartySchemaNames(); Element[] schemaElements; try { ArrayList additionalSchemaElements = new ArrayList(); javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = getNamespaceAwareDocumentBuilder(); for (int i = 0; i < schemaNames.length; i++) { //the location for the third party schema;s is hardcoded if (!"".equals(schemaNames[i].trim())) { InputStream schemaStream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(SCHEMA_PATH + schemaNames[i]); //load in codegen.thirdparty.schema string array Document doc = documentBuilder.parse(schemaStream); additionalSchemaElements.add(doc.getDocumentElement()); } } //Create the Schema element array schemaElements = new Element[additionalSchemaElements.size()]; for (int i = 0; i < additionalSchemaElements.size(); i++) { schemaElements[i] = (Element)additionalSchemaElements.get(i); } } catch(SaxException s_e) { log.debug("SaxException has been thrown message="+s_e.getMessage()); } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException( CodegenMessages.getMessage("extension.additionalSchemaFailure"), e); } return schemaElements; } private DocumentBuilder getNamespaceAwareDocumentBuilder() throws ParserConfigurationException { DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); documentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true); return documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); } the validation is done thru the javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder::parse ..if parse errors occur then a SAXException is thrown as seen here in the javadoc.. parse public abstract Document parse(InputSource is) throws SAXException, IOException Parse the content of the given input source as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object. An IllegalArgumentException is thrown if the InputSource is null null. Parameters:is - InputSource containing the content to be parsed. Returns:A new DOM Document object. Throws: IOException - If any IO errors occur. SAXException - If any parse errors occur.See Also:DocumentHandler where the loadAdditionalSchemas method is implemented here: try { // load the actual utility class Class clazz = null; try { clazz = getClass().getClassLoader().loadClass(XMLBEANS_UTILITY_CLASS); } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { throw new RuntimeException("XMLBeans binding extension not in classpath"); } //use reflection to invoke utility class method for actual processing Method method = clazz.getMethod(XMLBEANS_PROCESS_METHOD, new Class[] { List.class, Element[].class, CodeGenConfiguration.class, String.class }); Element[] additionalSchemas = loadAdditionalSchemas(); TypeMapper mapper = (TypeMapper)method.invoke(null, new Object[] { schemas, additionalSchemas, configuration, typeSystemName }); // set the type mapper to the config configuration.setTypeMapper(mapper); } catch (Exception e) { if (e instanceof RuntimeException) { throw (RuntimeException)e; } else { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } i dont believe this functionality is in the base ant package we could however write this into a new xmlvalidate_sax target and taskdef the class that contains the parse Martin Gainty ______________________________________________ Jogi és Bizalmassági kinyilatkoztatás/Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité Ez az üzenet bizalmas. 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