Validating XML against XSD [duplicate]
Returns simply true or false (also you don't need any external library):
static boolean validateAgainstXSD(InputStream xml, InputStream xsd){ try { SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI); Schema schema = factory.newSchema(new StreamSource(xsd)); Validator validator = schema.newValidator(); validator.validate(new StreamSource(xml)); return true; } catch(Exception ex) { return false; }}
XMLUnit has some nice classes to do this, there is an example in their README file:
Validator v = Validator.forLanguage(Languages.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);v.setSchemaSources(Input.fromFile("local.xsd").build());ValidationResult result = v.validateInstance(new StreamSource(new File("local.xml")));return result.isValid();
public boolean validate() { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setAttribute( "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"); factory.setAttribute( "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaSource", "http://domain.com/mynamespace/mySchema.xsd"); Document doc = null; try { DocumentBuilder parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); doc = parser.parse("data.xml"); return true; } catch (Exception e) { return false; }}