Package com.saxonica.ee.jaxp

Class ValidatorHandlerImpl

java.lang.Object
javax.xml.validation.ValidatorHandler
com.saxonica.ee.jaxp.ValidatorHandlerImpl
All Implemented Interfaces:
ContentHandler, DTDHandler, LexicalHandler
public class ValidatorHandlerImpl extends ValidatorHandler implements ContentHandler, LexicalHandler, DTDHandler
The is the Saxon implementation of the JAXP 1.3 ValidatorHandler interface. It is a SAX ContentHandler that accepts events from an XML parser (or elsewhere), validates them, reports any errors, and passes the events on to another ContentHandler. The events that are passed on will be augmented with extra elements and attributes that expand default values defined in the schema. In addition, the receiving ContentHandler has access to a TypeInfoProvider that gives information about the type of the current element or attribute event.

A ValidatorHandler is the front end to a rather complex pipeline. The ValidatorHandler is the first stage in the pipeline: it receives events from a SAX parser or other source of SAX events. The next stage is a ReceivingContentHandler, which translates SAX events into Receiver events. This is followed by a number of Receivers to do the validation (actually a stack of Receivers, since a new ComplexContentValidator is added each time a new element starts). The last Receiver is the finalProxy: this translates Receiver events back into SAX2 events, for delivery to the user's ContentHandler.

The user's ContentHandler has access to a TypeInfoProvider that gives information about the types of elements and attributes. This information is passed down the Receiver pipeline in the form of typeCodes associated with element and attribute events. The TypeInfoProvider is part of the finalProxy, which saves the type information locally and returns it to the user's ContentHandler on request. The TypeInfo objects supplied by the TypeInfoProvider are in fact the schema components representing the type, as a SchemaType object.