com.sun.msv.verifier
public interface IVerifier extends VerifierHandler
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Object | getCurrentElementType()
returns current element type.
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ErrorHandler | getErrorHandler() |
Datatype[] | getLastCharacterType()
gets DataType that validated the last characters.
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Locator | getLocator() |
boolean | isValid()
checks if the document was valid.
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void | setErrorHandler(ErrorHandler handler) |
void | setPanicMode(boolean usePanicMode)
Turns on/off the panic mode.
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Returns: null this method returns null when it doesn't support type-assignment feature, or type-assignment is impossible for the current element (for example due to the ambiguous grammar).
This method works correctly only when called immediately after startElement and endElement method. When called, this method returns DataType object that validated the last character literals.
For RELAX NG grammar, this method can return an array of length 2 or more. This happens when the last character matches <list> pattern. In that case, each type corresponds to each token (where tokens are the white-space separation of the last characters).
For any other grammar, this method always returns an array of length 1 (or null, if the type assignment failed).
So when you are using VerifierFilter, you can call this method only in your startElement and endElement method.
Returns: null if type-assignment was not possible.
However, turning it off is sometimes useful, when you are sure that the structure of the document is almost valid (e.g., validating a document generated by an application or when you are sure about the validity of the structure and only interested in validating datatypes,)