Need XML Validator

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Need XML Validator

Karma

11:49 am on Aug 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi all,

The company I work for are reaching the end of their XMLSpy evaluation. The package is great, but is 'overkill' for what we need.

We are looking for something to simply validate an XML file against a schema.

Can anyone recommend any other products?

Thanks in advance

coopster

12:43 am on Aug 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

[w3.org...] would be a good starter ;)

ronburk

12:49 am on Sep 9, 2006 (gmt 0)

I sort of gave up on the whole idea of using schema's for validation. Whatever the spec of choice, there's always important semantics they can't account for, and the error messages are typically dismal.

These days, for any given XML document type, I just make an XSLT program that checks for conformance. If you already know XSLT, there's no learning curve. There's hardly any kind of check you can't code for. And you get complete control over the output (kick it out as XML file, or text error messages, or some format custom-designed to work with your favorite IDE).