tool to fix non-conforming xml?

[Peter Rooney]

hi all,

i'm working on a project where i'm marshalling xml files to java
objects created with JAXB 1.0 from an xsd schema. the problem is that
the marshalling fails (UnexpectedElementException) when it hits an
element that is not defined in the schema -- and the process that
produces the xml sometimes includes such elements. Upgrading to JAXB
2.0 is not an option, unfortunately.

so, my question: is there a tool, commercial or not, which fixes
non-conforming xml by supplying defaults for missing elements
and by stripping elements not defined in the schema?

thanks in advance for any help.
peter

 

[guitar.is.good]

Not an xml expert by far, but couldnt you develop a simple XSL
stylesheet / transform your input XML files to a verified output? I.e.
transform all given input xml files to your output defined by the
scheme, any elements not defined in the schema are simply igored in the
stylesheet / transformation process.

 

[Henry S. Thompson]

"Validate twice with surgery" is the informal name of a technique
which will do exactly what you are looking for.

There's a writeup of a talk about this from XML Europe 2004 available
[1], and a free demo of a pipeline-based implementation which you can
try with your own document and schema [2].

ht

[1] http://www.markup.co.uk/XMLEu2004/
[2] http://www.markup.co.uk/showcase/
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