Does anyone here write their own customized AutoYaST scripts for building SLES servers?
I'm not talking about generating them with yast2 autoyast.
If so, have you found a way to verify the syntax? xmllint is good as far as telling you that the XML syntax is valid, but with an upto date DTD, it can't tell you anything more, and the shipped DTDs are out-of-date.
I've opened a ticket with Novell on this, but who knows when and what I'll hear back.
I wrote my own for SLES 9 a couple years back, but I just ran through a bunch of live tests where I was booting a virtual machine and pointing it at the autoyast.xml file. Boot, load the file, find problem, fix it, boot again. Worked like a charm when it was finished.
I found another tool that I yet have to actually try out, I have no idea if it will work, but I'm going to make note of it here for future reference.