What is the best way to validate XML files against XML Schema 1.1 in Java?
I took the code from this tutorial and changed the line where it looks up the factory to use XML Schema 1.1 as I have seen in this code example from the Xerces FAQ.
This is my code:
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
import javax.xml.validation.Validator;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
public class XSDValidator {
private static void validateFile(File xmlFile, File xsdFile) throws SAXException, IOException
{
// 1. Lookup a factory for the W3C XML Schema language
SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance("http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema/v1.1");
// SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
// 2. Compile the schema.
File schemaLocation = xsdFile;
Schema schema = factory.newSchema(schemaLocation);
// 3. Get a validator from the schema.
Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
// 4. Parse the document you want to check.
Source source = new StreamSource(xmlFile);
// 5. Check the document
try
{
validator.validate(source);
System.out.println(xmlFile.getName() + " is valid.");
}
catch (SAXException ex)
{
System.out.println(xmlFile.getName() + " is not valid because ");
System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
}
}
}
The code throws this exception:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No SchemaFactory that implements the schema language specified by: http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema/v1.1 could be loaded
As I see it I have exactly the same imports as the code snippet in the Xerces FAQ. I even tried to add Xerces to my Maven dependencies but that didn't help either.
Cheers :)