validate xml with a dtd in java

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Mithil - 18 Jul 2007 01:15 GMT

Hi all,

I am new to xml, could some one please tell me how to validate xml
against a DTD in java ? or even point me in the right direction ?

Thanks in advance,
Mithil

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Andrew Thompson - 18 Jul 2007 02:14 GMT

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>I am new to xml, could some one please tell me how to validate xml
>against a DTD ..

An XSD can check a lot more.

>..in java ?

Do you run Ant? An easy way to validate XML is
to use the Ant based XMLValidate task.
<http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/xmlvalidate.html>

>..or even point me in the right direction ?

Or alternately (for a stand-alone app.) you might look
into using the same functionality (code, API's) as the
Ant task. And that seems to be..
<http://java.sun.com/webservices/jaxp/>

HTH

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Greg R. Broderick - 18 Jul 2007 07:18 GMT

Mithil <mithil.mohan@gmail.com> wrote in news:1184717717.891512.153280
@o11g2000prd.googlegroups.com:

> Hi all,
>
> I am new to xml, could some one please tell me how to validate xml
> against a DTD in java ? or even point me in the right direction ?

See the javadocs for javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory, especially the
setValidating() method.

Cheers!
GRB

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Mithil - 23 Jul 2007 18:52 GMT

thanks Andrew and Greg, I will look at some of the docs and come back
to u guys if I need any more help.

Regards,

Mithil

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Roedy Green - 23 Jul 2007 20:17 GMT

>I am new to xml, could some one please tell me how to validate xml
>against a DTD in java ? or even point me in the right direction ?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/xml.html

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