Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Output Validation in CSVToXMLBasic.java

Input validation was fairly simple once we performed the setup. On the other hand, validating output is not so easy with the current versions of JAXP and Xerces. This may have changed by the time you read this, so it will be worthwhile to check the JAXP and Xerces Javadocs to see what is available. However, right now we have only a few options.

We could do DOM Level 3 validation. The Xerces dom3 packages have some preliminary validation methods based on the DOM Level 3 drafts. However, the current Level 3 validation draft doesn't quite offer us exactly what we're looking for, which is a single method that validates a complete DOM Document. In addition, the Xerces dom3 packages come with warnings about instability. ...