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On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:04 PM, John Christopher <john.christopher1100@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > Newbie alert. > > So far, I have been validating my XML docs with RELAX NG schemas (I started out with XML Schema but switched to RELAX NG, which is much easier to read). I use the XML schema datatypes, enumeration, lists, etc. to do most of the validation I want to do. When I need to validate something that is beyond the capabilities of RELAX NG, I have been using GNU Awk to scan the XML and do further validation, but this is messy and error-prone. > > Is there a better way? Is it possible to add additional validation functions to parsers? If so, how? > > I am also investigating schematron. How powerful/limited is this? > > What is/are the standard way(s) to validate XML beyond the capabilities of schemas? Any advice, pointers, or links would be appreciated. > It's not clear what you want to do, but since you mention Schematron I'd highly recommend that as a path to explore. If you still need more after that then personally I'd turn to XSLT... Peter Hunsberger
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