edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat
Class DBValidate

java.lang.Object
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public class DBValidate

extends java.lang.Object

Name: DBValidate.java Purpose: A Class that validates XML documents This class is designed to be parser independent i.e. it uses only org.xml.sax classes It is tied to SAX 2.0 methods Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis April 28, 2000

Version:

1.0

Author:

Dan Higgins

Constructor Summary

DBValidate(java.lang.String parserName)
Construct a new validation object

DBValidate(java.lang.String parserName, java.lang.String xmlcatalogfile)
Construct a new validation object

Method Summary

static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) main method for testing
java.lang.String	returnErrors() provide a list of errors fromthe validation process
boolean	validate(java.lang.String doc) validate an xml document against its DTD
boolean	validateString(java.lang.String xmldoc) validate an xml document against its DTD

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DBValidate

public DBValidate(java.lang.String parserName)

Construct a new validation object

DBValidate

public DBValidate(java.lang.String parserName,
                  java.lang.String xmlcatalogfile)

Construct a new validation object

Method Detail

validate

public boolean validate(java.lang.String doc)

validate an xml document against its DTD

Parameters:

doc - the filename of the document to validate

validateString

public boolean validateString(java.lang.String xmldoc)

validate an xml document against its DTD

Parameters:

xmldoc - the String containing the xml document to validate

returnErrors

public java.lang.String returnErrors()

provide a list of errors fromthe validation process

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

main method for testing

Usage: java DBValidate