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DOM Level 3 Validation

DOM Level 3 provides a detailed API for validation. This API can be used to validate against any schema language the parser supports, although DTDs and W3C XML Schema Language schemas are certainly the most common options.

Caution

This section is based on working drafts of the relevant specifications and experimental software. The broad picture presented here is correct, but a lot of details are likely to change before DOM Level 3 is finalized.

Unlike SAX, DOM objects can be validated when the document is first parsed or at any later point. You can also validate individual nodes rather than validating the entire document. To validate while parsing, you set the following features on the document or document builder's DOMConfiguration ...