bi********@hotmail.com wrote:
any recommendations? I'm looking for something that will just run from
the unix command line to validate large (20-50Mb) XML files against an
XML DTD.
This question comes up frequently and I usually
recommend xmllint. Older versions only parse but
dont validate. More recent versions can validate
against DTD or Schema.
Usage : xmllint [options] XMLfiles ...
Parse the XML files and output the result of the parsing
--version : display the version of the XML library used
--debug : dump a debug tree of the in-memory document
--shell : run a navigating shell
--debugent : debug the entities defined in the document
--copy : used to test the internal copy implementation
--recover : output what was parsable on broken XML documents
--noent : substitute entity references by their value
--noout : don't output the result tree
--nonet : refuse to fetch DTDs or entities over network
--htmlout : output results as HTML
--nowrap : do not put HTML doc wrapper
--valid : validate the document in addition to std well-formed check
--postvalid : do a posteriori validation, i.e after parsing
--dtdvalid URL : do a posteriori validation against a given DTD
--dtdvalidfpi FPI : same but name the DTD with a Public Identifier
--timing : print some timings
--output file or -o file: save to a given file
--repeat : repeat 100 times, for timing or profiling
--insert : ad-hoc test for valid insertions
--compress : turn on gzip compression of output
--html : use the HTML parser
--xmlout : force to use the XML serializer when using --html
--push : use the push mode of the parser
--memory : parse from memory
--maxmem nbbytes : limits memory allocation to nbbytes bytes
--nowarning : do not emit warnings from parser/validator
--noblanks : drop (ignorable?) blanks spaces
--nocdata : replace cdata section with text nodes
--format : reformat/reindent the input
--encode encoding : output in the given encoding
--dropdtd : remove the DOCTYPE of the input docs
--nsclean : remove redundant namespace declarations
--testIO : test user I/O support
--catalogs : use SGML catalogs from $SGML_CATALOG_FILES
otherwise XML Catalogs starting from
file:///etc/xml/catalog are activated by default
--nocatalogs: deactivate all catalogs
--auto : generate a small doc on the fly
--xinclude : do XInclude processing
--loaddtd : fetch external DTD
--dtdattr : loaddtd + populate the tree with inherited attributes
--stream : use the streaming interface to process very large files
--walker : create a reader and walk though the resulting doc
--pattern pattern_value : test the pattern support
--chkregister : verify the node registration code
--relaxng schema : do RelaxNG validation against the schema
--schema schema : do validation against the WXS schema
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http://xmlsoft.org/
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