SchemaFactory doesn't support W3C XML Schema in platform level 8?

Question

With the Android SDK, the following code in a plain empty Activity fails:

@Override
protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();

    SchemaFactory schema         


        

Answer 1

You might have some luck re-packaging xerces with jarjar and then passing

"org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory"

to

SchemaFactory.newInstance(String schemaLanguage, String factoryClassName, ClassLoader classLoader)

if you're using API >=9 or directly instantiating

org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory 

if you're using API 8. It might not work at all using an older API than that.