Re: Xalan-J for XML Pipeline?

Hi Lewis,

Have you had a look at TransformerHandler [1] and ValidatorHandler [2]? You
can connect these together to form a pipeline which does a transformation
and validates the result (and/or source).

Thanks.

[1]
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/javax/xml/transform/sax/TransformerHandler.html
[2]
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/javax/xml/validation/ValidatorHandler.html

Michael Glavassevich
XML Technologies and WAS Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]

"McGibbney, Lewis John" <[email protected]> wrote on 12/14/2011
09:00:03 AM:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm working on a reasonably large HTML project which I wish to
> convert to XML. So far so good. It is essential that the resulting
> XML conforms to an XSD which I have obtained. Before undertaking the
> transformation it would be nice to
> 1) Validate the source HTML document ensuring it conforms to the XSD
> 2) Validate the resulting XML output with the XSD.
>
> So far I have reviewed Saxon as a possible tool, however
> unfortunately schema validation is only offered in the enterprise
> edition, therefore I wonder if Xalan-J is a feasible alternative?
> Having looked on the user@ lists I've not seen much apart from this
> thread [1] to suggest that it is.
>
> Finally, it would be great if there was some tool which indicates
> where an error is during the validation and transformation, however
> from what I gather this is not the case, can anyone confirm?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
> Lewis
>
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=xalan-j-users&m=122546865125251&w=2
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