Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 05:52:19PM -0800, Rush Manbert
wrote:
>
>> Yan Seiner wrote:
>>
>>> I have an embedded system that uses XML
extensively. Many of the XML
>>> files are modified and generated by other
software. I am looking for a
>>> simple XML well-formedness checker, something I
can point at an XML file
>>> and tell the user that s/he has a problem with
file xyz.xml around line
>>> YYY or maybe element XXX.
>>>
>>> Does any such thing exist? I've found RXP, but
it doesn't use
>>> libxml.... I really don't want to introduce
more stuff into my (already
>>> bloated) embedded box...
>>>
>> The obvious answer is xmllint
>>
>
> yes
>
>
>> (which needs a DTD).
>>
>
> no  . Well
formedness is tested just by running
> xmllint --noout file.xml
>
> and only well-formedness errors will be printed there,
and possibly some
> warning (which can be suppressed with --nowarning).
> Then validity can be checked against the DTD (--valid
or --dtdvalid),
> or XSD and Relax-NG (see xmllint help), but that
doesn't seems to be the
> question.
>
> Daniel
>
>
My bad for not reading the docs on xmllint far enough. I
missed the
well-formedness check it does completely.....
Has anyone written it as a function, so I could call it from
within
PHP? What I would like to do is the following:
1. PHP backend parses XML file using domxml_open_file
2. parse fails
3. PHP then invokes xmllint on the failed xml file, and the
PHP backend
presents the user with a coherent message as to where the
parse failed.
I could probably hack something together using the xmllint
--htmlout
option, but it would be neater if it was all packaged up...
--Yan
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