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 market you need to validate the generated markup before putting it on your web pages. You also want to avoid broken links on your pages but it can be very… Read more »
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 schema to it can be cumbersome if you have to type all of the information and XML text manually. You need to enter the path to the XSD and all… Read more »
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. Schematron uses a lot of XPath and the validator is based on XSLT to apply all rules to the XML instance. But often it is not easy to debug a Schematron check if it does not work… Read more »
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 use HTML. You can also publish the HTML documents automatically on your server and anyone who has access to the HTML can check the validation status of all XML data. XML… Read more »
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 call the XML validator for all files with *.xml as extension clicking a single button. The following steps are required: I had to fill the find field with “*.xml”. Send ENTER to the… Read more »
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 data) XML document which has a size of 2.5 GB and about 39 million lines of text. In XML ValidatorBuddy you can open it in the Large File Viewer window in 34s. You can do a complete… Read more »
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 environment. But how do you check your JSON instance documents in a convenient and standardized way like you can do for any XML file? For this purpose JSON Schema was introduced. In order to… Read more »
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 an attribute are unique for all elements (within the same parent). Simply open XML ValidatorBuddy, create a new Schematron schema and add the following rule in the editor: <iso:pattern id=”unique name attributes”>… Read more »
In contrast to many other tools XML Validator Buddy supports validation of XML files against W3C schema definitions without an explicit reference in the instance document. This is done using an XML catalog and an association based on the usage of namespaces in the instance document and the definition of a target namespace in the schema. XML Validator Buddy provides… Read more »
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 if the XML instance is valid or not. This has changed with the latest release 3.2.2 of the XML command line tool. Now it is also possible to get a detailed error report with the… Read more »