diff --git a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/SimpleXsdSchema.java b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/SimpleXsdSchema.java
index 1971f845..f3270b27 100644
--- a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/SimpleXsdSchema.java
+++ b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/SimpleXsdSchema.java
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 import org.springframework.xml.namespace.QNameUtils;
 import org.springframework.xml.sax.SaxUtils;
+import org.springframework.xml.validation.XmlValidator;
+import org.springframework.xml.validation.XmlValidatorFactory;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 import org.w3c.dom.Element;
 import org.w3c.dom.Node;
@@ -61,6 +63,8 @@ public class SimpleXsdSchema implements XsdSchema, InitializingBean {
 
     private Element schemaElement;
 
+    private XmlValidator validator;
+
     /**
      * Create a new instance of the {@link SimpleXsdSchema} class.
      * <p/>
@@ -88,6 +92,10 @@ public class SimpleXsdSchema implements XsdSchema, InitializingBean {
         return schemaDocuments;
     }
 
+    public XmlValidator getValidator() {
+        return validator;
+    }
+
     public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
         Assert.notNull(schemaResource, "'schema' is required");
         Assert.isTrue(schemaResource.exists(), "schema '" + schemaResource + "' does not exit");
@@ -100,6 +108,7 @@ public class SimpleXsdSchema implements XsdSchema, InitializingBean {
         Assert.isTrue(SCHEMA_NAME.equals(name),
                 "schema document has invalid qualified name: " + name + ". " + "Epected " + SCHEMA_NAME);
         Assert.hasLength(schemaElement.getAttribute("targetNamespace"), "schema does not define targetNamespace");
+        validator = XmlValidatorFactory.createValidator(schemaResource, XmlValidatorFactory.SCHEMA_W3C_XML);
     }
 
     /** Inner definition of {@link SimpleXsdSchemaDocument}. */
diff --git a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/WsCommonsXsdSchema.java b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/WsCommonsXsdSchema.java
index 5ee2d251..26f5d3fa 100644
--- a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/WsCommonsXsdSchema.java
+++ b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/WsCommonsXsdSchema.java
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 import org.springframework.xml.sax.SaxUtils;
+import org.springframework.xml.validation.XmlValidator;
+import org.springframework.xml.validation.XmlValidatorFactory;
 
 /**
  * Implementation of the {@link XsdSchema} interface that uses <a href="http://ws.apache.org/commons/XmlSchema/">Apache
@@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ public class WsCommonsXsdSchema implements XsdSchema, InitializingBean {
 
     private XsdSchemaDocument[] schemaDocuments;
 
+    private XmlValidator validator;
+
     /**
      * Create a new instance of the {@link WsCommonsXsdSchema} class.
      * <p/>
@@ -91,6 +95,10 @@ public class WsCommonsXsdSchema implements XsdSchema, InitializingBean {
         this.schemaResources = schemaResources;
     }
 
+    public XmlValidator getValidator() {
+        return validator;
+    }
+
     public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
         Assert.notEmpty(schemaResources, "'schemaResources' must not be empty");
         XmlSchemaCollection schemaCollection = new XmlSchemaCollection();
@@ -108,6 +116,7 @@ public class WsCommonsXsdSchema implements XsdSchema, InitializingBean {
             }
         }
         this.schemaDocuments = (XsdSchemaDocument[]) schemaList.toArray(new XsdSchemaDocument[schemaList.size()]);
+        validator = XmlValidatorFactory.createValidator(schemaResources, XmlValidatorFactory.SCHEMA_W3C_XML);
     }
 
     public XsdSchemaDocument[] getSchemaDocuments() {
diff --git a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/XsdSchema.java b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/XsdSchema.java
index a51976c1..7995f47a 100644
--- a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/XsdSchema.java
+++ b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/XsdSchema.java
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 package org.springframework.xml.xsd;
 
+import org.springframework.xml.validation.XmlValidator;
+
 /**
  * Represents an abstraction for an XSD schema document. A schema is made up of one or more schema documents.
  *
@@ -28,4 +30,7 @@ public interface XsdSchema {
     /** Returns the {@link XsdSchemaDocument} objects this schema consists of. */
     XsdSchemaDocument[] getSchemaDocuments();
 
+    /** Returns the {@link XmlValidator} based on this schema. */
+    XmlValidator getValidator();
+
 }