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/*
 * Copyright 2001-2005 (C) MetaStuff, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * This software is open source.
 * See the bottom of this file for the licence.
 */

package org.dom4j.io;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.dom4j.Document;

import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

/**
 * 
 * SAXValidator validates an XML document by writing the document
 * to a text buffer and parsing it with a validating SAX parser. This could be
 * implemented much more efficiently by validating against the dom4j object
 * model directly but at least allows the reuse of existing SAX based validating
 * parsers.
 * 
 * 
 * @author James Strachan 
 * @version $Revision: 1.10 $
 */
public class SAXValidator {
    /** XMLReader used to parse the SAX events */
    private XMLReader xmlReader;

    /** ErrorHandler class to use */
    private ErrorHandler errorHandler;

    public SAXValidator() {
    }

    public SAXValidator(XMLReader xmlReader) {
        this.xmlReader = xmlReader;
    }

    /**
     * Validates the given Document by writing it to a validating
     * SAX Parser.
     * 
     * @param document
     *            is the Document to validate
     * 
     * @throws SAXException
     *             if a validation error occurs
     * @throws RuntimeException
     *             DOCUMENT ME!
     */
    public void validate(Document document) throws SAXException {
        if (document != null) {
            XMLReader reader = getXMLReader();

            if (errorHandler != null) {
                reader.setErrorHandler(errorHandler);
            }

            try {
                reader.parse(new DocumentInputSource(document));
            } catch (IOException e) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Caught and exception that should "
                        + "never happen: " + e);
            }
        }
    }

    // Properties
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * DOCUMENT ME!
     * 
     * @return the XMLReader used to parse SAX events
     * 
     * @throws SAXException
     *             DOCUMENT ME!
     */
    public XMLReader getXMLReader() throws SAXException {
        if (xmlReader == null) {
            xmlReader = createXMLReader();
            configureReader();
        }

        return xmlReader;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the XMLReader used to parse SAX events
     * 
     * @param reader
     *            is the XMLReader to parse SAX events
     * 
     * @throws SAXException
     *             DOCUMENT ME!
     */
    public void setXMLReader(XMLReader reader) throws SAXException {
        this.xmlReader = reader;
        configureReader();
    }

    /**
     * DOCUMENT ME!
     * 
     * @return the ErrorHandler used by SAX
     */
    public ErrorHandler getErrorHandler() {
        return errorHandler;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the ErrorHandler used by the SAX
     * XMLReader.
     * 
     * @param errorHandler
     *            is the ErrorHandler used by SAX
     */
    public void setErrorHandler(ErrorHandler errorHandler) {
        this.errorHandler = errorHandler;
    }

    // Implementation methods
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Factory Method to allow alternate methods of creating and configuring
     * XMLReader objects
     * 
     * @return DOCUMENT ME!
     * 
     * @throws SAXException
     *             DOCUMENT ME!
     */
    protected XMLReader createXMLReader() throws SAXException {
        return SAXHelper.createXMLReader(true);
    }

    /**
     * Configures the XMLReader before use
     * 
     * @throws SAXException
     *             DOCUMENT ME!
     */
    protected void configureReader() throws SAXException {
        ContentHandler handler = xmlReader.getContentHandler();

        if (handler == null) {
            xmlReader.setContentHandler(new DefaultHandler());
        }

        // configure validation support
        xmlReader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", true);

        // configure namespace support
        xmlReader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", true);
        xmlReader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes",
                false);
    }
}

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 * 
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 * notices. Redistributions must also contain a copy of this document.
 * 
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 * 
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 * 
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 * "DOM4J" appear in their names without prior written permission of MetaStuff,
 * Ltd. DOM4J is a registered trademark of MetaStuff, Ltd.
 * 
 * 5. Due credit should be given to the DOM4J Project - http://www.dom4j.org
 * 
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 * ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
 * POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 * 
 * Copyright 2001-2005 (C) MetaStuff, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
 */