SchemaFactory doesn't support W3C XML Schema in platform level 8?
With the Android SDK, the following code in a plain empty Activity fails: @Override protected void onStart() { super.onStart(); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI); } The 2.2 emulator logcat shows this exception: 06-28 05:38:06.107: WARN/dalvikvm(495): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d800) 06-28 05:38:06.128: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(495): FATAL EXCEPTION: main java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example/com.example.HelloWorldActivity}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: http