org.dom4j.io
Class SAXValidator

java.lang.Object
  org.dom4j.io.SAXValidator

public class SAXValidator

extends Object

SAXValidator validates an XML document by writing the document to a text buffer and parsing it with a validating SAX parser. This could be implemented much more efficiently by validating against the dom4j object model directly but at least allows the reuse of existing SAX based validating parsers.

Version:

$Revision: 1.10 $

Author:

James Strachan

SAXValidator

public SAXValidator()

SAXValidator

public SAXValidator(XMLReader xmlReader)

validate

public void validate(Document document)
              throws SAXException

Validates the given Document by writing it to a validating SAX Parser.

Parameters:

document - is the Document to validate

Throws:

SAXException - if a validation error occurs

RuntimeException - DOCUMENT ME!

getXMLReader

public XMLReader getXMLReader()
                       throws SAXException

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

the XMLReader used to parse SAX events

Throws:

SAXException - DOCUMENT ME!

setXMLReader

public void setXMLReader(XMLReader reader)
                  throws SAXException

Sets the XMLReader used to parse SAX events

Parameters:

reader - is the XMLReader to parse SAX events

Throws:

SAXException - DOCUMENT ME!

getErrorHandler

public ErrorHandler getErrorHandler()

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

the ErrorHandler used by SAX

setErrorHandler

public void setErrorHandler(ErrorHandler errorHandler)

Sets the ErrorHandler used by the SAX XMLReader.

Parameters:

errorHandler - is the ErrorHandler used by SAX

createXMLReader

protected XMLReader createXMLReader()
                             throws SAXException

Factory Method to allow alternate methods of creating and configuring XMLReader objects

Returns:

DOCUMENT ME!

Throws:

SAXException - DOCUMENT ME!

configureReader

protected void configureReader()
                        throws SAXException

Configures the XMLReader before use

Throws:

SAXException - DOCUMENT ME!