XSD Validation

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XSD Validation

Folks,

I've been poking around looking for something I can use that isn't a language library for validating XML against the XSD. I was REALLY hoping for a text editor that would magically do this for me but didn't run across one that wasn't part of a very large dev environment. I found this cute little command-line utility that does the trick for me and wanted to pass along a plug in case it would save anyone else some time.

http://www.xmlmind.com/xvalid.html

Warm regards,
Ben

Windows XP

Posted on Nov 26, 2007 1:02 PM

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Answer 1

ramen

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Nov 27, 2007 9:55 AM in response to Ben Rogers

Nice find, Ben. Thanks.

I've been using jUnit with the XML and XSD support in Java 5. Here's a link, if anyone is looking for a way to do XSD validation from within a Java program:

http://itunesu-api-java.googlecode.com/svn/branches/xsd-validation/src/test/edu/ asu/itunesu/XsdTest.java

Dave

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Answer 2

richwolf

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Nov 27, 2007 11:31 AM in response to Ben Rogers

Ben,

I agree with Dave, that is indeed a nice find. I would imagine it would be particularly useful for those whose iTunes U scripts are shell scripts. This is something their scripts could wrap around. 🙂

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Ben Rogers Author

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Nov 27, 2007 11:57 AM in response to richwolf

Rich,

I actually thought initially I might suggest you use this in wolamaloo but found that they prohibit distribution with even non-commercial apps. I guess you could do it the way audacity handles the LAME encoder but I suspect you've already got a library you like that you can just use in code.

Ben

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Answer 4

richwolf

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Nov 27, 2007 1:15 PM in response to Ben Rogers

Ben,

No worries. It appears that Cocoa (which Woolamaloo uses heavily) can validate by-way-of XMLSchema:

http://urltea.com/27q4

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