[CONFIGURATION-549] User guide: Validation of XML configuration files: config.load()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andy Schönemann
• Created: 27/Jun/13 11:10
• Updated: 01/Jul/13 06:08
• Resolved: 01/Jul/13 06:08

Description

In the following section of the user guide it would be a good point to write, that when you use config.load() to activate the previously set validation of the schema, the default behavior is that your configuration file is "cloned":

http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/userguide/howto_xml.html#Validation_of_XML_configuration_files

That means, that calls of config.getList(...) will contain all results twice!

Perhaps you better use config.refresh() here? The using of config.reload() does not activate the validation of the schema.