Warning: validation was turned on but an org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler

Question

Any idea why this error is happening and how to fix it? I\'m getting this error when trying to parse/load a config file:

Error

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Answer 1

The exception says that an ErrorHandler wasn't set. This means that the parser uses its built-in error handler, which simply writes messages to the console. If you actually want to validate, you need to create an ErrorHandler implementation and attach it to the DocumentBuilder.

For more information, read this: http://www.kdgregory.com/index.php?page=xml.parsing (error handlers are about 1/3 of the way down).

Or, as other responses have suggested, you can just turn validation off.