xml-validation

XML validation vulnerable to culture info?

a day before end of project i run into a complicated issue: i have a wtf service and 3 client application using it. service has three methods, each one receiving an xml document as an argument and returning xml document. this is how they communicate. i've got some xsd files to validate generated and received xml's. till today everything ...

XML Validation: Am I Doing It Right?

Hi all, I was just wondering if someone could give my XML validation code a once over to see if I'm doing it right. Here's the portion of code that is giving me the trouble... SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory .newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI); /...

Validating xml nodes, not the entire document.

I'm working with some xml 'snippets' that form elements down the xml. I have the schema but I cannot validate these files because they are not complete xml documents. These snippets are wrapped with the necessary parent elements to form valid xml when they are used in other tools so I don't have much option in making them into valid xml ...

XML Validation

Hi, I want to validate an XML file against RELAXNG schema provided. Searching on the net gave me hints to create a Schema instance using SchemaFactory by providing the appropriate Schema Language. So as per my requirement I used: *SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.RELAXNG_NS_URI);* But the following exception was thrown at run: ...

Uploading an XML file, referencing an XSD, in ASP.Net

I have an XML file which is being uploaded to an ASP.Net page via the normal file upload control. When it gets up, I am attempting to validate and deserialize the XML. However, the code below is really very handy for validating an XML file which references it's XSD like this: xsi:schemaLocation="someurl ..\localSchemaPath.xsd" Howev...

java xml validation JDK 1.5 JDK 1.6 difference

I have a problem with Java xml validation. I have the following xsd: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsd:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt; <xsd:element name="TEST"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="LAST_NAME"> <xsd:simpleType>...

XML parser doesn't complain but XMLeditor complains about empty attributes

Dear All, I have a program that uses XSL-FO (org.apache.fop.apps.Driver) to generate a PDF print out from an XML file. I'm working on the Stylesheets (xsl) & I'm trying to make the debugging easier. I have the XML & the XSL file, now I just want my editor to show me the generated PDF as I'm working on the XSL file. I tried several ed...

What is the best way to validate XML w.r.t XSD using Free XML Validator ?

Hi, I need to validate XML against XSD and so what are free XML Validator available out there that could be useful for my task. Thanks. ...

How to create XML file that uses two DTDs?

We're creating a REST service where the client will send XML containing a financial portfolio. The portfolio XML will use a published standard XML DTD. We would like to add a few bits of data to the portfolio XML. We would like to keep the ability to validate the XML against the published DTD. But if we add extra fields the DTD val...

Getting Schema info from XML while validating in Java

Hi, I need to validate XML file against XML Schema so that the schema info is taken from the XML. I have XML document which defines its namespace. Like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <myelement xmlns="mynamespace"> </myelement> The schema location is not in the document so I'd need to tell the validator where is the s...

How to validate REST request?

Given this service: POST /hotel HTTP/1.1 <hotel> <a>aaa</a> <b>bbb</b> <c>ccc</c> </hotel> HTTP/1.1 201 CREATED Location: /hotel/123 When we process the request on the server we will validate the hotel XML in the request against a DTD. Question is, as a REST best practice should the client refer to the DTD in the request (a...

Avoid validating WSDL every time the web service is executed

I have a small app running in JBoss that uses web services and every time they are called, it parses the WSDL and tries to fetch from xmlsoap.org [1] in order to validate it (the WSDL). Is there a way to avoid this validations? The problem is that: It's slowing down the system and Many times xmlsoap.org [1] doesn't return correctly (r...

Validating with DTD - connection forcibly closed

I'm validating a document with the DTD in the document which is not on my machine, it is stored on the internet. I am currently getting the following exception System.Xml.XmlException: An error has occurred while opening external DTD 'http://xml.cxml.org/schemas/cXML/1.2.020/cXML.dtd': Unable to connect to the remote server ---&gt; Sy...

User friendly error messages from validating XMLReader

I am validating form input against an XML schema definition by serializing my business layer objects to a MemoryStream and then reading the MemoryStream using a validating XMLReader. In the callback function for validation errors, I have access to the name of the element failing validation and to a rather lengthy string containing the d...

PL/SQL - XML Validation errors

I am validating an XML document against a schema. So far, all is going well, but there are some significant differences between the generated document and the schema (hence the validation). I've noticed that Oracle will stop validating after the first error is encountered. I'd like to be able to compile a list of errors and take them to ...

validating xml with an arbitrary xml file

hi, in my company they have came up with their own xml that is being used as a schema for data, now i have to validate a xml according to that schema. is there any easy way to do it or i have to write from scratch? i am working with java6... thanks ...

What could be wrong with this xsd?

I have an xsd. When I try to validate it in BizTalk it gives these errors: error BEC2009: Node "<Schema>" - Schema reference "http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd" is not a valid reference or does not exist in the current project. error BEC2009: Node "<Schema>" - Schema reference "http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd" is not a valid reference or ...

Server-Side XML Validation with CXF Webservice

Hey guys, I'm working on an Apache CXF webservice (using JAX-WS, over SOAP). The service itself is pretty simple: receive a request, insert the request into a database, and return whether the insert was successful. I'd like to rely on XML validation to enforce a number of constraints on the request. So, my question. How do I return ...

Grab, cache and parse remote XML feed, validation checks in PHP

Currently, I'm grabbing a remote site's XML feed and saving a local copy on my server to be parsed in PHP. Problem is how do I go about adding some checks in PHP to see if the feed.xml file is valid and if so use feed.xml. And if invalid with errors (of which sometimes the remote XML feed somes display blank feed.xml), serve a backup...

can a valid xml body have escaped characters for the '<' and '>' around the element names

My web service is receiving xml from a third party that looks like this: <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt; <SOAP-ENV:Body> &lt;Foo&gt;bar&lt;/Foo&gt; </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> My jaxws web service rejects this with a parsing error. Also if I try to validate this xml u...