A Schema is an immutable opaque parsed representation of a schema. Schema objects don't perform validation themselves ; instead, they are factories for Validator and ValidatorHandler objects that can be used to validate individual documents. public abstract class Schema { // Protected Constructors protected Schema ( ); // Public Instance Methods public abstract Validator newValidator ( ); public abstract ValidatorHandler newValidatorHandler ( ); } Passed Tojavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setSchema( ) , javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.setSchema( ) Returned Byjavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.getSchema( ) , javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.getSchema( ) , javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.getSchema( ) , javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.getSchema( ) , SchemaFactory.newSchema( ) |