[vox-tech] best way to validate an XML file?

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Fri Jun 10 16:25:47 PDT 2011


This one also works. I put in an extra leaf, and it found it.

java -jar <path to jing-20081028>/bin/jing.jar maven-v4_0_0.xsd pom.xml

Thanks,

brian

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:11:17AM -0700, Harold Lee wrote:
>    There's also Jing ([1]http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing.html),
>    which supports several flavors of schemas.
> 
>    On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Bryan Richter
>    <[2]bryan.richter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:52:20PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
> 
>    > What is everyone using to validate an XML file on GNU/Linux? I have a
>    > pom.xml file that I would to check is valid.
> 
>      I used xmllint, which is in the libxml2-utils package on Ubuntu.
>      However, I recall I mostly used it for parsing, and I think the
>      version I used didn't even support validation.
>      It appears to support it now, however. The system I was using
>      xmllint
>      on was 'stable' and enterprise-y and had old software. :)
>      -b
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> References
> 
>    1. http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing.html
>    2. mailto:bryan.richter at gmail.com
>    3. mailto:vox-tech at lists.lugod.org
>    4. http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

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