public SAXValidator() 
{

}

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

 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);
}

Configures the XMLReader before use

 protected XMLReader createXMLReader() throws SAXException 
{
        return SAXHelper.createXMLReader(true);
}

Factory Method to allow alternate methods of creating and configuring XMLReader objects

 public ErrorHandler getErrorHandler() 
{
        return errorHandler;
}

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 public XMLReader getXMLReader() throws SAXException 
{
        if (xmlReader == null) {
            xmlReader = createXMLReader();
            configureReader();
        }
        return xmlReader;
}

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 public  void setErrorHandler(ErrorHandler errorHandler) 
{
        this.errorHandler = errorHandler;
}

Sets the ErrorHandler used by the SAX XMLReader.

 public  void setXMLReader(XMLReader reader) throws SAXException 
{
        this.xmlReader = reader;
        configureReader();
}

Sets the XMLReader used to parse SAX events

 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);
            }
        }
}

Validates the given Document by writing it to a validating SAX Parser.