[jdom-interest] Re: XML Schema Validation

[Andy Clark]

Richard Baldwin wrote:
> I don't disagree with your statement.  However, some
> elaboration may be beneficial for those who are
> interested in learning more about the behavior of JDOM
> in the event of a validation error.

You're right: I should have been more clear.

The Xerces parser does not throw an exception in the event 
of a validation error. Therefore, parsing continues. However, 
an ErrorHandler registered on the parser may choose to throw 
an exception on either a warning, error, or fatal error. The 
error handler could even choose *not* to throw an exception
on a fatal error -- but this is NOT advised.

In short, I think it's a bad idea for the default error
handler (BuilderErrorHandler) to throw an exception in the
case of a non-fatal error.

-- 
Andy Clark * IBM, TRL - Japan * andyc at apache.org