Saxon

Bug reported by Jörg Godau (initially in bug issue #2411):

We need to deactivate the secure Processing, as we are dealing with files with over 10000 (tenthousand) elements. We do that with:

final SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
schemaFactory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, false);

This causes:

org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException: http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/feature/secure-processing
at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.setFeature(SchemaFactory.java:390)

Mike's response:

We should probably treat this as a bug, since the Javadoc does say that all implementations are expected to recognize this feature (and by implication, recognize a request to switch it off). But your application should work fine, I think, if you just avoid this call, or ignore the exception if it fails. There's a possibility that the underlying parser might impose size limits on the XML, but we've validated gigabyte-sized files without hitting any limits, so I would be surprised.