SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance( XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI); // This enables restrictions on schema complexity. factory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true); // The following line prevents resource resolution // by the schema itself. factory.setResourceResolver(new NoResourceResolver()); Schema schema = factory.newSchema(schemaFile); Validator validator = schema.newValidator(); // This prevents external resource resolution. validator.setResourceResolver(new NoResourceResolver()); validator.validate(new DOMSource(document));