validating using XSL + java

[Ulf Nordlund]

I am using an XML schema to check (validate) the structure of an XML document. But since I cannot check everything I need using a schema, I am thinking of using XSL for more detailed checks (value comparisons etc.) in a second step.

Validation using an XML schema is pretty straight forward: I simply define the schema document when parsing the XML to a DOM model in my Java code. Any validation problems comes out as exceptions (which I know how to handle).

But how do I generate exceptions when applying XSL to my document? I.e. how will I be notified that some conditions (that I defined in the XSL document) are false? I guess what I need to know is how to use XSL as a validation tool in a Java application.

Any advice, links etc would be much apprechiated.
/ulf

 

[Martin Honnen]

Ulf Nordlund wrote:

But how do I generate exceptions when applying XSL to my document? I.e. how will I be notified that some conditions (that I defined in the XSL document) are false? I guess what I need to know is how to use XSL as a validation tool in a Java application.

Schematron is a schema language that allows you to make certain assertions and then check them using an XSLT 1.0 processor:
<http://xml.ascc.net/resource/schematron/schematron.html> Not sure that is what you are looking for but check that out yourself.