Hi Russell, "Thamm, Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/08/2008 12:08:59 AM:
> Hi, > it appears that the dynamic validation feature does not work as documented. > If a document that does NOT specify a schema is parsed and the > grammar pool contains a matching schema (ie a schema that defines > the root element of the document), > the document is validated. > This IS NOT what the documentation says: "The parser will validate > the document only if a grammar is specified." It was specified by the grammar pool. > When I googled this, I found someone who stated that: > If dynamic validation is set to true, and validation is set to true, > validation will only occur if a grammar is found. > This appears to match the way the software works but contradicts the > documentation (specified is not the same as found). > Can I use grammar caching and get xerces to validate only documents > that specify a schema? Grammar pool is an interface [1]. You're in control of what it returns. If you want it to only return a grammar if a schema location hint was provided by the instance document then you need to change your implementation of grammar pool to behave as such. > Cheers > Russell Thamm Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/xni/org/apache/xerces/xni/grammars/XMLGrammarPool.html Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
