Re: [xml] Validating Schemata

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 02:10:50PM +0000, Frans Englich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to validate my Schemata sometimes, simply to ensure no silly mistakes 
> have been made. I don't want to validate a document instance, but simply tell 
> xmllint to barf if my Schema isn't a Schema. Is this possible?

  if the schemas doesn't compile, it will tell you.

> Also, is it an idea to validate Schematas against the W3C's XML Schema 
> Schema[1]?

  all Schema for Schema published I know of are broken anyway I don't
think they ever fixed the bug I reported [1]

> I remember vaguely a discussion where it was stated it was 
> something principally wrong with validating Schemata. xmllint, 2.6.14, fails 
> on the Schema, anyway.

  Which version of the Schema ? 

Daniel

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2002AprJun/0004.html

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