Question

I need to validate order of my output xml against a XSD using XMLUnit framework. I am new to XMLUnit and have no idea how to do it. I know that XMLUnit compares two XMLs but how to compare XML against a XSD?

Answer 1

Instead of using XMLUnit for this aspect, you could use the javax.xml.validation APIs that are available in Java SE 5 and above:

SchemaFactory sf = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
Schema schema = sf.newSchema(new File("customer.xsd"));

Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
validator.setErrorHandler(new MyErrorHandler());
validator.validate(source);

For More Information

• http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/11/validate-jaxb-object-model-with-xml.html