RE: mass validation of xml files

I'd use ant if you have it set up and the basic method is below

<target name="validateXML">
<xmlvalidate lenient="no" warn="yes"
classname="org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser" failonerror="no">
<fileset dir="path to file" />
</xmlvalidate>
</target>

Marijan Madunic


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hickman [mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:52 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  mass validation of xml files

Georg Hohmann wrote:
> Hi,
> i got a quick question that is a little bit off topic:
> Does anyone know a way or a (free) tool to validate a bunch of xml
> files (>30.000) against a DTD or a schema at once?
>
> Regards,
> Georg
>
What do you mean at once? You want to validate 30,000 xml files in
parallel, why? For what reason would you want to do this?

However if you really just want to validate a bunch of xml files then
you could use something like this (under unix):

for XML in *.xml
do
    xmllint --dtdvalid this.dtd --noout $XML
done

Of course you will need to check the output but the bones of it is
there. It also allows you to validate against schema and relaxng.