Problem validating a DOMSource

Question

Hi,
In de folowing javacode I'm trying to validate a DOMSource using the javax.xml.validation.Validator class.
public XsdValidator(Document bericht, String xsd, ErrorHandler errorHandler ) {
this.bericht = bericht;
this.xsd = xsd;
this.errorHandler = errorHandler;
public void validate() throws SAXException {
SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(SCHEMA_TYPE);
try {
Schema schema = factory.newSchema(new URL(this.xsd));
// Get a validator from the schema.
Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
validator.setErrorHandler(this.errorHandler);
// Parse the document you want to check.
Source source = new DOMSource(this.bericht);
// Check the document
validator.validate(source);
etc...
The validator doesn't seem to find any errors in de given org.w3c.dom.Document (this.bericht). When I validate the document against the XSD using XMLSPY (for instance), I can see the errors in de document. Am I doing something wrong?
Arjan Jorritsma

Answer 1

Hi,
Here is my own errorhandler implementation:
public class BerichtErrorHandler implements ErrorHandler {
  private ArrayList foutmeldingen = new ArrayList();   
  private void addFoutmelding(String code, String omschrijving) { 
    this.foutmeldingen.add(new Foutmelding(code,omschrijving));
  public void warning(SAXParseException ex) {
    this.addFoutmelding("warning",ex.getMessage());
  public void error(SAXParseException ex) { 
    this.addFoutmelding("error",ex.getMessage());
  public void fatalError(SAXParseException ex) throws SAXException {   
    this.addFoutmelding("fatal",ex.getMessage());
    throw ex;
public Foutmelding[] getFoutmeldingen() {
    Foutmelding[] err = new Foutmelding[this.foutmeldingen.size()];
    err = (Foutmelding[])this.foutmeldingen.toArray(err);
    return err;
}