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In this post, I described my journey implementing XSD 1.1 validation in Java. It’s much less easy than I had expected in the first place
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The Java JDK uses a wrapped Xerces implementation for parsing. The implementation is stuck on XSD validation 1.1, which is not supported in XSD 1.0. The solution is to use the Xerces-J implementation instead.