Package com.saxonica.validate

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Interface Summary
Watch	A Watch represents a class that is interested in looking at nodes for the purpose of evaluating uniqueness and key constraints.

 

Class Summary
AllElementValidator	This class is validator used to check the content of an element whose complex type uses the "xs:all" construction in XML Schema.
AnnotationRemover	This class is a filter that passes all Receiver events through unchanged, except that it removes all type annotations from element and attribute nodes
AnyTypeValidator	Validator to validate an element against the class xs:anyType
AttributeValidator	This class is an abstract superclass for all the receivers that do element content validation.
ComplexContentValidator	This class is a filter that is used to validate the content of an element with a complex type.
ConstraintChecker	This class handles the checking of Schema-defined unique, key, and keyref constraints.
EmptyContentValidator	This class is a filter that is used to validate that an element has empty content.
FieldWatch	A FieldWatch is a class that is looking for nodes that match a field selector within a uniqueness or key constraint.
IdValidator	This class validates that ID elements and attributes have unique values and that IDREF and IDREFS elements and attributes refer to an ID in the same document.
KeySelectorWatch	This class watches the selector for a key or unique constraint
LaxValidator	This class performs lax validation on an element.
RefSelectorWatch	This class watches the selector for a keyref constraint
SchemaAwareConfiguration	A subclass of Configuration that defines a schema-aware processor.
SelectorWatch	A Watch represents a class that is interested in looking at nodes for the purpose of evaluating uniqueness and key constraints.
SimpleContentValidator	This class is a filter that is used to validate that an element has simple content conforming to a given simple type.
Sink	A Sink is an Receiver that discards all information passed to it
ValidationStack	This class manages the receivers that do element content validation.
Validator	This class is an abstract superclass for all the validators.
VoidValidationContext	This object represents validation context in which nothing will validate.
XSIAttributeHandler	This class acts as the first stage in a a validation pipeline.

 

Package com.saxonica.validate Description

The Validation package

This package contains classes used to validate document instances against a schema.

This validation is all performed "on-the-fly", by a collection of classes that implement Saxon's (SAX-like) Receiver interface, which is notified of start/end element events, attributes, and text nodes, as they occur. A pipeline of such classes is used both while processing input documents and while writing output documents, and in both cases, validation classes can be added to the pipeline.

Local validation of elements is controlled using the ValidationStack class, which manages a stack of validators for each element that is currently open. The most interesting of these is the ComplexContentValidator, which makes use of a finite state machine created by compiling a ComplexType in the schema. The finite state machine is represented by the AutomatonState object corresponding to the initial (entry) state of the machine.

Global validation of uniqueness and referential constraints is controlled using the ConstraintChecker class. The maintains a set of Watch classes that are interested in elements matching particular (restricted) XPath expressions. The restricted XPath expression used in XML Schema (which is similar to, but not identical to, an XPath pattern) is represented by a Selection object. Implementations of the Watch class are used to handle the different kinds of constraint that a schema can specify.

None of the classes in this package will normally be used directly by user applications.