Date:         Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:56:30 -0500
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From:         Andrew E Switala <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Schema validation
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Since XMLSpy appears to have a bug or two, users of same could get
Xerces from http://xml.apache.org/ to verify the validity of XML schemas
and instance documents created with that editor. It's free, and doesn't
require any programming to use as a validator of existing documents. I
use the Java version with the following Windows script:

@echo OFF
setlocal
set XERCES_HOME=C:\xerces-2_6_0
set CLASSPATH=%XERCES_HOME%\xercesImpl.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%XERCES_HOME%\xml-apis.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%XERCES_HOME%\xercesSamples.jar
java -cp "%CLASSPATH%" dom.Counter -v -s -f %*
endlocal

Assuming the script is named xsdvalidator.bat, it's used like

xsdvalidator instance.xml

The dom.Counter sample application just prints the number of elements
and attributes in the instance document, but with the -v -s -f options
it validates the instance document (by DTD if there's an DOCTYPE
declaration, and by schema if there's an xsi:schemaLocation attribute
present). It additionally validates every schema according to the
built-in schema for schemas.

--Andy