Validating XML against a DTD

JediWizard has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to humbly ask advice of the monks.

Does Anybody know a good module, or way, to validate an XML document against a DTD? I have searched cpan and I get thosands of hits searching on "XML" or even "XML DTD", but none of them seem to simply check that an XML document fits a given DTD. I would think this would be a very common thing to want to do, but I simply don't see it out there.

May the Force be with you

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Re: Validating XML against a DTD by herveus (Prior) on Sep 17, 2004 at 15:24 UTC
Howdy! CPAN is your friend. One approach (there may be more than one) is to use XML::LibXML, with particular attention to XML::LibXML::Dtd to parse a DTD and XML::LibXML::Document to validate (particularly the is_valid and validate methods). This took me just a few minutes to look up... yours, Michael	[reply]
Re^2: Validating XML against a DTD by JediWizard (Deacon) on Sep 17, 2004 at 15:33 UTC
Thank you very much Micheal. CPAN is my friend, but I suppose I was imply not using the right search string, or just missed the module. I'll check out XML::LibXML. Thanks, again May the Force be with you	[reply]
Re: Validating XML against a DTD by Anonymous Monk on Sep 17, 2004 at 15:27 UTC
How to validate an XML file against its DTD? using XML::LIbXML to validate against a dtd and retrieve any errors therein	[reply]
Re: Validating XML against a DTD by grantm (Parson) on Sep 19, 2004 at 21:04 UTC
See also the Perl XML FAQ	[reply]