Re: [xml] is my xsd file valid?

[Csaba Raduly <rcsaba gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Andy Davidson  wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am able to use to xmllint to  validate an xml file against a xsd file.
>
> $ xmllint --noout zoo.xml --schema zoo.xsd
> zoo.xml validates
>
> Any idea how I can validate the actual xsd file?  I have a large set of xsd files. I want to create a shell 
> script that makes it easy to check the set is valid

There is an XSD schema for XSD:

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd

You can download it and use it as the --schema argument to xmllint.

Csaba
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