If you have the XML, the DTD and a XSL processor like Saxon, then the Schematron is for you. The Schematron is an XSL stylesheet that creates a validation stylesheet from the DTD, which is then run against your data - quite nice if you stare long enough at it, but if you stare too long at it, the voices in other peoples heads become too loud so you can't hear the voices in your head anymore.

From looking at the Schematron homepage, there is talk about there being implementations in Perl and Python as well, but I can't find any of them at the moment...

I hope that mirod will come up with a Perl solution :-)

In reply to Re: XML Syntax Checker by Corion
in thread XML Syntax Checker by nick

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