Excellent - thanks again for the response.
cheers
dim
On 6/14/05, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <Kohsuke.Kawaguchi_at_sun.com> wrote:
> Dmitri Colebatch wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I'm in a situation where I want to be able to parse old versions of
> > schemas, including incompatible changes. When unmarshalling these
> > schemas I'd like to just ignore any elements or attributes that are
> > not in the current schema and fit the response into the current schema
> > structure as best as I can.
>
> That is one of the use cases for JAXB.
>
> > The javadoc for Unmarshaller.setSchema indicates that if i call
> > setSchema(null) there will be no validation. I tried this approach,
> > but still got failures (unexpected element). I'm now setting my own
> > ValidationEventHandler that simply returns true (ie ignore all
> > errors).
>
> setSchema(null) is the default, so you don't have to explicitly call it.
> I'll update the javadoc so that it explicitly says that's the default.
>
> We recently changed the default ValidationEventHandler so that it
> ignores unexpected elements by default.
>
> > Two questions - firstly is the javadoc correct (btw this is using
> > jaxb-ri-20050407), and secondly is what I'm doing the best approach
> > for my scenario?
>
> Yes, except that you don't have to set your own ValidationEventHandler
> if you are using more recent version of the JAXB RI.
>
>
> --
> Kohsuke Kawaguchi
> Sun Microsystems kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com
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