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Format huge XML data with no size limit You can format huge XML documents without loading it in the XML editor from the built-in File Explorer window. This is helpful if you get large XML data... Read article Pretty-print and remove whitespace for large JSON data What do you do if you need to compact a JSON document but the file has more than 400 MB and 20 Million lines? Or the other way around, you have a large... Read article My editor layout for working with JSON schema files JSONBuddy offers a lot of functionality while you are editing a JSON schema file. It is even not always easy to have all of the information visible on... Read article Generate sample data from JSON schema tl;dr Use JSONBuddy or XML ValidatorBuddy to generate a live preview of JSON sample data while editing your JSON schema. JSONBuddy has already some... Read article SHA-1 collision: Use SHA-256 or SHA-512 Google has announced that they found a collision using two different documents which did generate the same SHA-1 hash value. You can read more about the... Read article Support tales: Enable the “Configure batch task” command One issue I have is the ‘Configure and run batch task’ is greyed out. Do I need to do anything to enable it? I have a batch XML settings file from my old... Read article Sign and verify XML digital signatures from the command-line The XML ValidatorBuddy software package also includes a command line tool. The name of the executable is “valbuddy.exe” and the tool is also located in... Read article Convert JSON to XML from the command line You can use the command-line tool included in the XML ValidatorBuddy package to convert JSON to XML. This allows you to quickly convert any number of... Read article Use CSS HTML Validator in XML ValidatorBuddy If you are working a lot with HTML documents and you also want to make sure that your HTML is properly styled and works best with all browsers on the... Read article Integrate DITA Open Toolkit as external command It is quite easy to use the DITA Open Toolkit from XML ValidatorBuddy as an external tool. The DITA standard is used to produce various output formats... Read article Coming next: JSON Schema documentation To extend the support for the JSON standard, JSONBuddy will get a brand new view to parse and display any JSON schema as a good looking and clearly... Read article Use XPath regular expressions to search in XML data The XML ValidatorBuddy editor provides a convenient search and replace window where you can quickly find any text in your XML or JSON data. But sometimes... Read article Create XML from schema For almost all of your XML you need to assign an XSD in the editor if you also want to run the XML validator. Starting a new XML and assigning a W3C... Read article How to debug Schematron validation A Schematron validator is a powerful tool to run business rules for your XML data and to check conditions that are not supported using W3C schema.... Read article Transforming the XML validator batch log to HTML Having the results of the XML validator batch log output in XML format is nice but if you want to show the results to someone else you might prefer to... Read article Call XML validator for all *.xml files in folder I played around with the freeware AutoIt to create some scripts for XML Validator Buddy to automate certain validator tasks. As a first idea I wanted to... Read article Tales from Support: Java VM not found Sometimes people get a Java loading error on using the Schematron validator in XML ValidatorBuddy for the very first time. In addition the editor shows a... Read article Editor and validator for large XML Here are some figures to show how fast you can open and inspect huge XML data in XML Validator Buddy. We are using the massachusetts.osm (OpenStreetMap... Read article JSON Schema editing – An introduction You might have noticed that JSON has become a quite popular text format over the last years. Especially for everyone who is working in a Java... Read article How to convert Excel or Word to JSON The short answer is unzip the .xslx or .docx documents saved from Word or Excel, which are just ZIP archives with some XML data inside, and convert them... Read article Schematron: Check for unique attribute and element values Based on customer feedback I want to post some solutions for two very common Schematron checks. The first rule is an assertion to report if all values of... Read article JSON well-formed checking Whenever you create some JSON output and want to make sure that the generated data is really parsable you can take the XML ValidatorBuddy editor to... Read article XML – JSON converter Starting with release 4.0 of XML ValidatorBuddy the editor also offers an XML to JSON converter. You can do conversions from XML to JSON and also from... Read article A Schematron sample: Count child nodes in batch mode for many files Schematron is a powerful and useful technology to complement the standard W3C Schema and DTD validator in XML ValidatorBuddy. However, it is often... Read article Use XML validator without schemaLocation attributes In contrast to many other tools XML Validator Buddy supports validation of XML files against W3C schema definitions without an explicit reference in the... Read article New features for the free Command Line XML parser Get a detailed error report on XML validation Until today the free XML Validator Buddy shell tool, which uses the Xerces parser internally, only reported... Read article Custom XML validation and targetNamespace This post explains how to run the XML validator to use a specific schema in XML ValidatorBuddy to check XML. If you use the “Validate against a specific... Read article Using the W3C Schema documentation functionality Generate HTML documentation for one or multiple W3C XML Schema documents. Read article