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Contact: Testbed Team

Date Created: 12/01/06

Last Modified: 01/13/11

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Overview

This site hosts a number of XML parsing tools that can be used to remotely validate XML schema files against the W3C XML Schema standard, and XML data files against their corresponding XML schemas. Results are displayed on a single page for easy comparison.These two types of validation activities are separated into two services: Schema Validation and Instance Validation. Both of these validation services allow the user to select from a variety of parsers. Others will be added on request so long as there are not licensing limitations.

Please click on the links below to get started:

Schema Validation Service

Schema validation allows the user to upload their own schema file, or a zip file containing multiple schemas, and validate it against the W3C standard specification for XML schemas. If a zip file is uploaded, the user must specify the target schema file name in order for the tool to know where to begin validation.


Instance Validation Service

Instance validation allows the user to upload their own uploaded schema or a schema installed on the site. If you are interested in seeing schemas installed on the site, please contact us. The installed schemas include those from:.

Note that instance validation is one way to validate that an XML schema meets the requirements captured in an XML schema. If errors are encountered during instance validation, it may reflect problems in the XML schema.