Checking to see if xml is well-formed in my servlet code
Hi,
I am grabbing content from a database, this content is *supposed* to be well-formed xml but as this is user-input I need to validate it before I send it back to the browser, is there simple code that I can use to validate the content I have as well-formed xml before sending it to the browser?
Thanks.
[324 byte] By [
nemcovaa] at [2007-11-26 21:06:17]
# 2
Or if it doesn't have a schema or DTD, and you just want to know if it's well-formed, then create a SAXParser and parse it. If that throws an exception then it's not well-formed.
# 3
Found a good way of doing it in java code:
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
try {
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
StringReader reader = new StringReader(testValue);
InputSource source = new InputSource(reader);
Document dom = db.parse(source);}
catch(Exception e) {compliant = 0;}
