Re: [xml-dev] Noob: XML validation capabilities beyond schemas

[Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:04 PM, John Christopher
<john.christopher1100@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Newbie alert.
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> So far, I have been validating my XML docs with RELAX NG schemas (I started out with XML Schema but switched to RELAX NG, which is much easier to read).  I use the XML schema datatypes, enumeration, lists, etc. to do most of the validation I want to do.  When I need to validate something that is beyond the capabilities of RELAX NG, I have been using GNU Awk to scan the XML and do further validation, but this is messy and error-prone.
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> Is there a better way?  Is it possible to add additional validation functions to parsers?  If so, how?
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> I am also investigating schematron.  How powerful/limited is this?
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> What is/are the standard way(s) to validate XML beyond the capabilities of schemas?  Any advice, pointers, or links would be appreciated.
>

It's not clear what you want to do, but since you mention  Schematron
I'd highly recommend that as a path to explore.  If you still need
more after that then personally I'd turn to XSLT...

Peter Hunsberger