[jdom-interest] question on JDom document validation. Happy New Year

[Jason Hunter]

> i must tell you that jdom is the
> best API ever made. I really wanted to knock my head to the wall when i see
> the DOM or Sax API.

:-)

> I don't know what is exactly validation. But i think it is something
> like a verification to know if the inputted xml file is valid or not.

Yep.

> Does validation checks according to the dtd assigned to the xml file ?

Yep.

> If validation is set to true, and xml file is not valid what kind of
> exception is thrown ? saxExceptions ?

A JDOMException.

> Thanks to all of you who can me see the light ;-))

You'll find Brett's book "Java and XML" to be very enlightening.

-jh-