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SchemaValidator is an object that is used for validating instance documents against a schema. The schema consists of the collection of schema components that are available within the schema cache maintained by the SchemaManager, together with any additional schema components located during the course of validation by means of an xsl:schemaLocation or xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute within the instance document.
If validation fails, an exception is thrown. If validation succeeds, the validated document can optionally be written to a specified destination. This will be a copy of the original document, augmented with default values for absent elements and attributes, and carrying type annotations derived from the schema processing. Expansion of defaults can be suppressed by means of the method {@link #setExpandAttributeDefaults(boolean)}.
A SchemaValidator is serially resuable but not thread-safe. That is, it should normally be used in the thread where it is created, but it can be used more than once, to validate multiple input documents.
A SchemaValidator is a Destination, which allows it to receive the output of a query or transformation to be validated.
Saxon does not deliver the full PSVI as described in the XML schema specifications, only the subset of the PSVI properties featured in the XDM data model.