DTD Validation Using an Editor

[Mark Reyes]

Hi All,

XML newbie here. I am trying to learn XML thru w3schools and I am at the DTD section.

My problem is, I have gone thru the topic and I think I understand some of it but just wanted to make sure if I understand it correctly.

Do you know any free XML editor that can validate the DTD that I am making be it internal or external DTD. As of the moment, I am using Firefox and IE to check the
if my xml files are well formed but I think it does'nt check the validity using my DTD.

I have gone thru the XML FAQ and found out validation using Xerces and JAXP but my problem is, I havent gone that far in my reading so I cant really understand how this one works.

Any idea how can I enhance my learning? I am sure that other XML related technology such as XSL and XSD needs some tool for validation also.


Thanks.

[Jaikiran Pai]

Do you know any free XML editor that can validate the DTD that I am making be it internal or external DTD.

If I understand your question correctly, you want a free editor which validates your XML against a schema. Is that correct? If so, check the "Software" section (XML Hammer for example) in our XML FAQ

[Jaikiran Pai]

By the way, if you are already using an IDE like Eclipse, then you can configure it to validate your XML.

[Mark Reyes]

Hi Jaikiran,

Thanks. I think I overlooked this FAQ.

I check out the link and found the following features at this link

Check a XML document for well-formedness
Validate a XML document against a XML Schema (XSD)
Search a directory using XPath
Validate a XML Schema Document
Transform a XML Document using XSLT
Format XML Documents (Pretty-Print)
Merge a XML Document using XInclude
Validate a XML Stylesheet

My internet connection is slow at this time so I cant seem to download. I have read thru this but it seems that there's no validation for DTD only XSD which as of the moment I dont have idea yet.

Any thoughts?

[Paul Clapham]

Mark Reyes wrote:XML newbie here. I am trying to learn XML thru w3schools and I am at the DTD section.

My problem is, I have gone thru the topic and I think I understand some of it but just wanted to make sure if I understand it correctly.

Do you know any free XML editor that can validate the DTD that I am making be it internal or external DTD. As of the moment, I am using Firefox and IE to check the
if my xml files are well formed but I think it does'nt check the validity using my DTD.

Which is rather odd because the DTD tutorial on that site says

With Internet Explorer you can validate your XML against a DTD.

And it goes on to post some Javascript which does that.

[Mark Reyes]

Which is rather odd because the DTD tutorial on that site says

With Internet Explorer you can validate your XML against a DTD.


And it goes on to post some Javascript which does that.

Hi Paul, Thanks! It was at the later part and I got bored just reading through without doing any exercise..

I wish Head First series has something about XML too and its related technologies....I have two books (Java and Servlets/JSP) and I think its cool. Hope Bert and Kathy reads this..