Question

We are parsing an XML file with the SAX parser. Is it possible to get the schema location from the XML?

<view id="..." title="..."
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="{schema}">

I want to retrieve the {schema} value from the XML. Is this possible? And how to I access this value of noNamespaceSchemaLocation? I’m using the default SAX Parser.

@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, 
                         String name, Attributes attributes)
{ .... }

Thank you.

Answer 1

It all depends with what kind of tool/library you are working (a basic SAXParser? Xerces? JDom? …) But what you want is the value of the attribute “noNamespaceSchemaLocation” in the namspace defined by the URI “http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”

in JDom, it would be something like:

Element view = ...; // get the view element
String value = view.getAttributeValue("noNamespaceSchemaLocation", Namespace.getNamespace("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"));