From quanta Sun Dec 24 19:05:57 2006 From: "Anthony Ettinger" Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:05:57 +0000 To: quanta Subject: Re: [Quanta] xml schema validation Message-Id: <3fc6b2fb0612241105r1956908eh145315b29695dd0d () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=quanta&m=116698717929683 On 12/23/06, Eric Laffoon wrote: > On Saturday 23 December 2006 2:20 pm, Anthony Ettinger wrote: > > Is it possible to validate xml against a schema? > > Sure, if you have a script for it. ;-) Seriously, we wanted to do this and > looked at numerous libraries to make it work. Unfortunately at the time there > was nothing satisfactory. There were issues with what functions a given > library had, how well it worked, availability and size. During the time we > added DTD structural validation there was nothing adequate and it was highly > unlikely any library would be widely available. Go figure. It all sounds to > great in concept until you try to implement it. Admittedly that was at least > a year or two ago last we looked. If you have any recommendations for > libraries let us know. It seems most implementations are less than universal > and we need a universal and flexible library. We're not likely to write one > from scratch as that is a tall order. > Thanks Eric, I am not in need of it at this time. I had similar experience about a year ago when I was using XMLSpy (win32) heavily, I was in search of something adequate that is open source. I didn't find anything as good as that. Seems to be one of those areas that there are only two good products, xmlspy and oxygen. -- Anthony Ettinger Ph: 408-656-2473 http://utuxia.com/consulting _______________________________________________ Quanta mailing list Quanta@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta