How can I provide customer error messages using JAXP DocumentBuilder?

Question

I want to provide my own message from the validation done in DocumentBuilder, rather than the one from XMLMessages.properties.

Now i see that a property error-reporter needs to be set to a class which extends XMLErrorReporter.

However, I've not been able to get ComponentManager from Document/Builder/Factory.

Can any kind soul gimme code to get it ?

Doing parsing of string in SAXParseException is the last option, but I'm just thinking there may be a 'best practice' way of doing it.

Answer 1

have you already looked at DocumentBuilder#setErrorHandler?

if yes, could you explain why this approach doesn't work for you?