Re: jaxb vs jaxp for XML validation

You're assuming that has to be an 'or'. It doesn't. You can provide a JAXP
javax.xml.validation.Schema to a JAXB 2.0 Unmarshaller and it will validate
the documents it unmarshals using the schema you specified.

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org

xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org wrote on 11/28/2007 09:04:49 PM:

> Given an XSD schema with key/keyref constraints,
> which XML processing to use- JAXB or JAXP?
>
>  JAXB is great because I get Marshal/Unmarshal
> capability. But JAXB 1.0 doesn't seem to support
> Key/Keyref constraint validation. JAXP seems to
> support this Key constraint validation in XSD. But,
> one has to implement Marshal/Unmarshal which doesn't
> come free here.
>
>  Obviously in my case, I do need to construct Java
> object for the incoming XML and vice-versa.
>
>
>
>
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