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Asked: 2019-02-24 14:49:54 +0800 CST

XSD-1.1 command line validation tool for Ubuntu

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I'm looking for a command line tool to validate an XML file with an XSD-1.1 file.

I have downloaded and installed libxerces2-java and then tried to apply Free and open source XSD 1.1 validation tool? and Xerces validator in command line, but I couldn't get either of them to work.

So, my simple question is:
Where can I get/how can I create an XSD-1.1 validating tool that can be run from the command line to validate an XML file?
Please provide a full solution, because Java class paths and so on are a topic of their own...

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1 Answers

  1. Finally I found an answer to my own question:
    I found the blog post "Free and open source XSD 1.1 validation tool?"
    which contains a link to the file xsd11-validator.jar (Mirror 1, Mirror 2).

    You can call it like this:

    usage: java hu.unideb.inf.validator.SchemaValidator -if <file> | -iu <url>
       [-sf <file> | -su <url>]
 -if,--instanceFile <file>   read instance from the file specified
 -iu,--instanceUrl <url>     read instance from the URL specified
 -sf,--schemaFile <file>     read schema from the file specified
 -su,--schemaUrl <url>       read schema from the URL specified

    To run it, you can use the following command line:

    java -jar xsd11-validator.jar -sf schema.xsd -if instance.xml

    And to simplify its usage, I wrote the following bash script xsd.sh:

    #!/bin/bash
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
  echo "======== XSD 1.1 Validator (for local files) ========";
  echo "=====================================================";
  echo "Usage: xsd.sh XSDschemaFile.xsd XMLFileToValidate.xml";
  echo "=====================================================";
  echo "(To validate remote files you have to call xsd11-validator.jar directly)";
else
  output=$( java -jar xsd11-validator.jar -sf $1 -if $2 2>&1 )
  if [ -z "$output" ]
  then
    echo "=== Validation succeeded! ===";
    exit 0
  else
    echo "=== Validation FAILED! ===";
    echo "$output";
    exit 1
  fi
fi

    It can easily validate XSD-1.1 files with the following command:

    ./xsd.sh schema.xsd input.xml
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