[jdom-interest] Validation strategy

[Thomas Scheffler]

Am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2006 11:15 schrieb Søren Faltz:
> I receive messages in the form of an XML document. I am able to receive up
> to 44 different messages, and i therefor also have 44 different xml
> schemas.
>
> When i receive a message, how do I know which schema to use to validate
> against??

Let not the server choose -- but the client tell -- what kind of message this 
is before parsing.

just embed something like this in the root element:

 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="schemaXY.xsd"

On server side use an custom EntityResolver or what its called to retrieve the 
schema.

This is the way I would implement this. I don't know if you have controll over 
the client code though.

regards

Thomas
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