3.9. The Smooks Validation Cartridge

The Smooks validation cartridge works with the rules cartridge to provide rules-based fragment validation.

This allows you to perform detailed validation on message fragments. As with everything in Smooks, the validation functionality is available across all supported data formats. This means you can perform strong validation on not just XML data, but also on EDI, JSON, CSV and so on.

Validation configurations are defined by the http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/validation-1.0.xsd configuration namespace.

Smooks supports a number of different rule provider types and these can all be used by the Validation Cartridge. Each of these provide a different level of validation but they are all configured in exactly the same way. The Smooks Validation Cartridge sees a rule provider as an abstract resource that it can aim at message fragments in order to validate them.