So, I made an XML document and its structure as XML Schema in a separate .xsd file, presuming they are correct, as I'm a complete beginner with XML. They both are displayed without errors on IE anyway.

I don't see the point of the XML Schema! Even if I purposefully change it so the data in XML won't conform with the Schema, I don't get any error and the data is correctly displayed on IE...

Janis

As you may have noticed, I'm new to this too. However, I know that IE doesn't validate your xml doc against an xsd. You have to do a validation manually.

This one seemed perfect for my purpose:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

After having installed the downloaded inf-files, you should be able to ask for a validation by right-clicking in IE and choose Validate. But it doesn't seem to work for me. Though, I've seen it mentioned several places and with no complaints. So I guess it's me or my system. You should give it a try.

Instead I use Altova's XMLSpy Home (free) Ed. It's a bit overkill I think but serves to fullfill my needs at this level of XML-skills. You may find it searching for Altova.

Thanks for the reply!

I didn't try the Microsoft one, but got Altova. I had already found it before because w3schools suggests it, only I didn't know there is a free version too.
So I installed Altova's XML Spy and now I can validate my XML. Currently it cannot even validate my XML Schema alone... but that's a different story. :)

Janis