Hi.. I am writing my own Schemas and trying to use them to validate XML. What I need is something to actually do the validating.

I've been using validome.org but I don't think it works right, and w3c tool spits out errors that don't make any sense (to me at least). Is there a downloadable utility to validate XML? Or a webpage that works?

Thanks for any help.

Two XML editors that I hear recommended a lot are Style Studio and oXygen XML Editor:

http://www.stylusstudio.com/
http://www.oxygenxml.com/

I'm sure there are others.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

The best schema validators are probably MSXML from Microsoft, Xerces from Apache, and Saxon from Saxonica. The first two are free. All of them are most easily used from tools such as oXygen and Stylus Studio (which are not free).

(In my view, but I'm biassed, it's worth paying for the Saxon-SA validator (GBP 30) simply for the better error messages)

There is an online validation service at http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv but of course you won't want to use that for more than the occasional one-off.



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I think I'm going to use notepad++ (which I really like) and an XML tools plugin. Thanks for the help guys