Mithil Shah

Overview In this article, we shall demonstrate how details of validation error can be obtained by using ValidationProblem class. Create the employee.dtd as shown below. It defines the employee element that contains id, name and salary sub-elements. Create invalidEmployee.xml as shown below. Note that it is not in accordance with employee.dtd described above as it … Read more

Overview In this article, we shall demonstrate handling of exception when XML is not well formed. Create employee.xml as shown below. Note that this XML document is not well-formed e.g. the ‘salary’ end element is not properly closed (see line 4 below). Create TestXmlException class. Note that XMLStreamException is caught and error message is redirected … Read more

Overview In this article we shall perform validation of generated XML by XMLStreamWriter . This demonstrates Woodstox’ validation capabilities while generating XML output. Create employee.dtd as shown below. It defines the employee element that contains id, name and salary sub-elements. Create TestValidationXmlStreamWriter as shown below. Create a valid XML as per the DTD as shown … Read more

Overview This article demonstrates how to validate an XML document against an RelaxNG Schema by using Woodstox. See relaxng.org’s homepage for further details on RelaxNG XML schema specification. Create employee.rng as shown below. It defines the employee element that contains id, name and salary sub-elements. Create validEmployee.xml as shown below. It is in accordance with … Read more

Overview This article demonstrates how to validate an XML document against an XML Schema by using Woodstox. Create employeeSchema.xml as shown below. It defines the employee element that contains id, name and salary sub-elements. Create validEmployee.xml as shown below. It is in accordance with employeeSchema.xml described above. Create invalidEmployee.xml as shown below. Note that it … Read more

Overview This article demonstrates how to validate an XML document against a DTD by using Woodstox. Create employee.dtd as shown below. It defines the employee element that contains id, name and salary sub-elements. Create validEmployee.xml as shown below. It is in accordance with employee.dtd described above. Create invalidEmployee.xml as shown below. Note that it is … Read more

Overview This article demonstrates how Woodstox can be used to bind namespace URI and prefix during XML generation. Create TestBindingPrefix class as shown below. Prefix is bound using the following API methods: XMLStreamWriter2.setPrefix() method for setting the prefix and URI(e.g. see line 28 below) XMLStreamWriter2.setDefaultNamespace() to set the default namespace URI (see line 21 below) … Read more

Overview Woodstox StAX Streaming API can be used to generate XML document. The key classes responsible for generating XML content are XMLOutputFactory2 and XMLStreamWriter2 . Create TestGenerateXml class as shown below. Point the outstream to Console output (see line 16 below). The following methods are used for XML content generation: create start element using writeStartElement() … Read more

Overview This article demonstrates how to optionally coalesce CData content using Woodstox StAX parser. This program shall parse the same XML document twice: once without coalescing and once with coalescing. Create employee.xml as shown below. Note that the name of the employee is mentioned within a CDATA section (see lines 4-6 below). Create TestCoalesceCData as … Read more

Overview This article demonstrates how to verify whether an element is empty or not using Woodstox StAX parser. Create employee.xml as shown below. Note that the element ‘address’ is empty. Create TestVerifyEmptyElement class as shown below. Note that start element is obtained by using the StAX API (see lines 20-26 below). Verify that the ‘address’ … Read more