[jdom-interest] JDOM in memory schema validation

[Jason Hunter]

> > I've seen you are planning to implement in memory schema validation for
> > JDOM which would be a quite cool feature.
> 
> I was interested in this at one time, but other that in a XML editor, I
> think some type of data-binding scheme would work better, so I lost interest.
> But if someone has a really cool use case my interest could be peeked again.

The argument for this feature is that when you receive a document across
the network in a B2B environment, you'll naturally want to check the
document conforms to a particular schema.  Parsing with validation
turned on is NOT good enough because it only checks the doc against the
schema declared within the document.  It's like virus checking a program
based on an algorithm declared within the program.  No thanks!

So what you want to do is take a doc, take a schema or DTD or set of
schemas, and ask if the received doc complies against the locally held
data.  Ignore schema decls or doc types within the doc.

This is of course unrelated to data binding.

-jh-