Re: [xml] how to validate xml with external schema

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:30:17PM +0100, xjuri volny cz wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> does anybody know the way, how to validate XML document with XML schema
> given as a parametr using libxml2? I know how to validate XML document
> which includes schema adress, viz. 
> http://groups.google.cz/group/comp.text.xml/browse_thread/thread/54d101bb8764068f/56e5ca1fdd408556?lnk=st&q=xmlSchemaValidateDoc&rnum=11&hl=cs#56e5ca1fdd408556
> But I need some functionality like:
>
> int validate (xml_document, xsd_schema);
>
> I have to validate it in my application, so I can not use xmllint. I
> would expact using libxml2 function xmlSchemaNewValidCtxt(schema), but

 yes

> as I read this function should be called with NULL parametr.

  No.

You need first to compile a schemas. Then once you have a compiled schemas
you can use it to validate documents. Read testSchemas.c from the distribution
to see a full example.

Daniel

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