Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import javax.xml.XMLConstants; import javax.xml.transform.*; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource; import javax.xml.validation.Schema; import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory; import javax.xml.validation.Validator; import java.io.*; public class Main { public static String validateAgainstXSD(String xml, String xsd) throws IOException { InputStream isXml = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()); InputStream isXsd = new ByteArrayInputStream(xsd.getBytes()); return isXmlPassingSchemaValidation(isXml, isXsd); } private static String isXmlPassingSchemaValidation(InputStream xml, InputStream xsd) throws IOException { Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(xml); try { SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI); Schema schema = factory.newSchema(new StreamSource(xsd)); Validator validator = schema.newValidator(); validator.validate(xmlSource); return null; } catch (SAXException e) { return e.toString(); } } }