I have a project with API 10 (2.3.3 version) in Android and i have a problem for the validation of xml with xsd file. This is my code:
Because XML Schema isn't supported on your platform.
If your question was more than just why? and more of a how can I do this... then the following may be an alternative that you might like.
I found I was not able to get the regular xerces to work with Android, however I did find Xerces-for-Android, which I got working. The following are details of the setup and some example code. Good luck :)
The following worked for me:
Android does support some packages which we can use, I created my xml validation utility based on: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/validation/package-summary.html
My initial sandbox testing was pretty smooth with java, then I tried to port it over to Dalvik and found that my code did not work. Some things just aren't supported the same with Dalvik, so I made some modifications.
I found a reference to xerces for android, so I modified my sandbox test of (the following doesn't work with android, the example after this does):
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
import javax.xml.validation.Validator;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
/**
* A Utility to help with xml communication validation.
*/
public class XmlUtil {
/**
* Validation method.
* Base code/example from: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/validation/package-summary.html
*
* @param xmlFilePath The xml file we are trying to validate.
* @param xmlSchemaFilePath The schema file we are using for the validation. This method assumes the schema file is valid.
* @return True if valid, false if not valid or bad parse.
*/
public static boolean validate(String xmlFilePath, String xmlSchemaFilePath) {
// parse an XML document into a DOM tree
DocumentBuilder parser = null;
Document document;
// Try the validation, we assume that if there are any issues with the validation
// process that the input is invalid.
try {
// validate the DOM tree
parser = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
document = parser.parse(new File(xmlFilePath));
// create a SchemaFactory capable of understanding WXS schemas
SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
// load a WXS schema, represented by a Schema instance
Source schemaFile = new StreamSource(new File(xmlSchemaFilePath));
Schema schema = factory.newSchema(schemaFile);
// create a Validator instance, which can be used to validate an instance document
Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
validator.validate(new DOMSource(document));
} catch (Exception e) {
// Catches: SAXException, ParserConfigurationException, and IOException.
return false;
}
return true;
}
}
The above code had to be modified some to work with xerces for android (http://gc.codehum.com/p/xerces-for-android/). You need SVN to get the project, the following are some crib notes:
download xerces-for-android
download silk svn (for windows users) from http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download
install silk svn (I did complete install)
Once the install is complete, you should have svn in your system path.
Test by typing "svn" from the command line.
I went to my desktop then downloaded the xerces project by:
svn checkout http://xerces-for-android.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ xerces-for-android-read-only
You should then have a new folder on your desktop called xerces-for-android-read-only
With the above jar (Eventually I'll make it into a jar, just copied it directly into my source for quick testing. If you wish to do the same, you can making the jar quickly with Ant (http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html)), I was able to get the following to work for my xml validation:
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import mf.javax.xml.transform.Source;
import mf.javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import mf.javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import mf.javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
import mf.javax.xml.validation.Validator;
import mf.org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
/**
* A Utility to help with xml communication validation.
*/public class XmlUtil {
/**
* Validation method.
*
* @param xmlFilePath The xml file we are trying to validate.
* @param xmlSchemaFilePath The schema file we are using for the validation. This method assumes the schema file is valid.
* @return True if valid, false if not valid or bad parse or exception/error during parse.
*/
public static boolean validate(String xmlFilePath, String xmlSchemaFilePath) {
// Try the validation, we assume that if there are any issues with the validation
// process that the input is invalid.
try {
SchemaFactory factory = new XMLSchemaFactory();
Source schemaFile = new StreamSource(new File(xmlSchemaFilePath));
Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(new File(xmlFilePath));
Schema schema = factory.newSchema(schemaFile);
Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
validator.validate(xmlSource);
} catch (SAXException e) {
return false;
} catch (IOException e) {
return false;
} catch (Exception e) {
// Catches everything beyond: SAXException, and IOException.
e.printStackTrace();
return false;
} catch (Error e) {
// Needed this for debugging when I was having issues with my 1st set of code.
e.printStackTrace();
return false;
}
return true;
}
}
Some Side Notes:
For creating the files, I made a simple file utility to write string to files:
public static void createFileFromString(String fileText, String fileName) {
try {
File file = new File(fileName);
BufferedWriter output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
output.write(fileText);
output.close();
} catch ( IOException e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
I also needed to write to an area that I had access to, so I made use of:
String path = this.getActivity().getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(getPackageName(), 0).applicationInfo.dataDir;
A little hackish, it works. I'm sure there is a more succinct way of doing this, however I figured I'd share my success, as there weren't any good examples that I found.