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• Subject: Fwd: RE: validating xml on the fly
• From: Scott Paulding <pldng@y...>
• Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 08:49:57 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello, 

I must not have hit 'reply to all'

-scott

--- Scott Paulding <pldng@y...> wrote:
> My difficulty is that I've never done it before :)
> 
> Basically, our porcess is this:
> 
> We have a 50+/- meg manual in sgml that we chunk into small xml
> fragments
> (each well formed xml documents). We use Ant to invoke this process,
> because there are different kinds of chunks (toc, meta, highlights,
> content, etc...) and diferent kinds of books to choose from. During the
> Ant process, the chunk.xsl is run on the book.sgm file, and it goes in
> on
> a deeper level than chapter, and chunks into 100-500k xml files,
> depending
> on the size of the specific sub-section and/or task within the manual.
> Generally, we have 100's-1000's of chunks per book. 
> 
> Since this is invokved from Ant, but the chunks are made in the xsl, I
> don't know how to tell xsl to validate each chunk as it is made, and I
> don't think I can do it from Ant. 
> 
> Sorry for not being clear enough. Thanks for all of the help so far. 
> 
> -scott
> 
> 
> --- Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote:
> 
> > Where exactly is your difficulty? Is it in identifying the schema to
> be
> > used, or in finding an API to invoke the schema validator, or what?
> > 
> > If you use XSLT 2.0, by the way, you can simply do:
> > 
> > <xsl:result-document name="chunk{position()}.xml" validation="strict">
> >   ..
> > </xsl:result-document>
> > 
> > The validation will then be done genuinely on the fly - and if it
> fails,
> > it
> > will tell you where you were in the stylesheet when it failed.
> > 
> > Michael Kay 
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Scott Paulding [mailto:pldng@y...] 
> > > Sent: 23 May 2005 23:34
> > > To: Chiusano Joseph; xml-dev
> > > Subject: RE:  validating xml on the fly
> > > 
> > > Ok...they are complete, well formed documents. Sorry for the
> > > miscommunication.
> > > 
> > > -scott
> > > 
> > > --- Chiusano Joseph <chiusano_joseph@b...> wrote:
> > > > Ah - by definition, an XML "fragment" is not well-formed 
> > > and therefore
> > > > will never validate (in the traditional use of the term
> "validate").
> > > > 
> > > > Kind Regards,
> > > > Joseph Chiusano
> > > > Booz Allen Hamilton
> > > > Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
> > > >  
> > > > 
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Scott Paulding [mailto:pldng@y...] 
> > > > > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:17 PM
> > > > > To: Chiusano Joseph; xml-dev
> > > > > Subject: RE:  validating xml on the fly
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sorry, no. The the chunking process creates xml fragments. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > -scott
> > > > > 
> > > > > --- Chiusano Joseph <chiusano_joseph@b...> wrote:
> > > > > > Did you perhaps mean for your subject to be "validating 
> > > sgml on the 
> > > > > > fly"?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Kind Regards,
> > > > > > Joseph Chiusano
> > > > > > Booz Allen Hamilton
> > > > > > Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > From: Scott Paulding [mailto:pldng@y...]
> > > > > > > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 5:57 PM
> > > > > > > To: xml-dev
> > > > > > > Subject:  validating xml on the fly
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > We are currently taking large SGM manuals (50 MB +, 
> > > per each) and 
> > > > > > > chunking them down into smaller fragments. I was 
> > > wondering how to 
> > > > > > > validate these chunks against our schema as they are
> created?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Please help!
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > -scott
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a 
> > > pretty good 
> > > > > > > time."
> > > > > > >         - Edith Wharton
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