1. Java XML Tutorial
2. Java & XML Tool Overview
3. Java SAX Parser
4. Java SAX DefaultHandler
5. Java SAX Schema Validation
6. Java SAX Parsing Example
7. Java SAX vs. StAX
8. Java StAX
9. Java StAX: XMLInputFactory
10. Java StAX: XMLOutputFactory
11. Java StAX: XMLEventReader - The Iterator API
12. Java StAX: XMLEventWriter - The Iterator Writer API
13. Java StAX: XMLStreamReader - The Cursor API
14. Java StAX: XMLStreamWriter - The Cursor Writer API
15. Java DOM
16. Java DOM: The Document Object
17. Java DOM Schema Validation

It is possible to turn on XML Schema validation during parsing with a SAXParser. Here is how it looks:

Schema schema = null;
try {
  String language = XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI;
  SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(language);
  schema = factory.newSchema(new File(name));
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackStrace();
}


SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
spf.setSchema(schema);

SAXParser parser = spf.newSAXParser();

parser.parse(...);

First a Schema object is created from some XML schema file.

Second, a SAXParserFactory is created and this factory has the Schema instance set on it. All SAXParser instances created by this factory will use this XML Schema to validate XML files.

Third, an XML file is parsed and validated.