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Hi folks,

I have a need to validate XML files against both DTDs and XML Schema from
the command line.

In an ideal world, I'd be able to do something like:

$ python validate.py foo.xml

which would then parse and validate foo.xml using the schema or DTD
referenced within it.

What I'm looking for is the contents of validate.py. A Python solution
isn't essential, but I like Python and I'm doing some other light XML
stuff in Python, so I'd prefer it.

I did some Googling, but I'm a little overwhelmed by the quantity and
variety of stuff I found, and I found a lot of stuff that was out of date.
I thought it would be useful to ask here.

Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks very much for any help.

Reid

For DTD's: have you stumbled across:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/220472

?

Jim

http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
Not Python, but just the tool for the job.

For Python, 4Suite has some validators. But parts of it were written in
C and might not be helpful if you want to look at the Python source
code. You might want to check
http://www.leuthe.homepage.t-online...._overview.html
for a pure Python sample. The page says it is not complete though.