perfect - thanks
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thanks - dave
david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com
"Martin Honnen" wrote:
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>
>
> David Thielen wrote:
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> > Yes it is .NET 2.0. And I realized last night that XmlDocument is creating a
> > DOM and I'd prefer to avoid that overhead. I just want it to read through and
> > then discard the document so a SAX reader is fine.[/color]
>
> ..NET has no SAX push parser but has a pull parser with XmlReader, here
> is an example on how to that with .NET 2.0 if you want to validate
> against a DTD, the example aborts parsing if an error is found:
>
> XmlReaderSettings readerSettings = new XmlReaderSettings();
> readerSettings.ProhibitDtd = false;
> readerSettings.ValidationType = ValidationType.DTD;
> XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(@"example.xml", readerSettings);
> bool valid = true;
> bool moreNodes = true;
> do {
> try {
> moreNodes = xmlReader.Read();
> }
> catch (XmlException e) {
> valid = false;
> Console.WriteLine(
> "Parse error \"{0}\" at line {1}, position {2}.", e.Message,
> e.LineNumber, e.LinePosition);
> }
> catch (XmlSchemaValidationException se) {
> valid = false;
> Console.WriteLine(
> "Validation error \"{0}\" at line {1}, position {2}.", se.Message,
> se.LineNumber, se.LinePosition);
> }
> }
> while (valid && moreNodes);
> if (valid) {
> Console.WriteLine("No errors found during XML parsing.");
> }
>
>
> Alternatively if you wanted to continue parsing to report all errors you
> need a ValidationEventHandler, see the documentation of the
> XmlReaderSettings class in your SDK documentation or online here:
> <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlreadersettings(VS.80).aspx>
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
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Verify an xml file is valid
