Re: [xml] Validating a Document using the Sax Interface??

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:36, OrangeCrush wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Is there a way to validate xml documet using the SAX interface??  A DTD might be present in the document 
> itself or outside in a file.  I tried setting the xmlDoValidityCheckingDefaultValue to 1 but that did not 
> work.  I have used the DOM model and the xmlValidateDocument function to validate a document in the past.  
> Is there a similar function for SAX model?  It seems like most of the validating functions take a xmlDocPtr 
> as an argument but the only way to get the xmlDocPtr is to build a DOM tree.  Is this correct? Any help 
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,

I think the answer is that you can't:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/xml-sax/implementing.html

"... not a validating parser, so only structural errors will be picked
up. So any validation of the format will have to be done by your parser
routines."

Cheers,
John


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