I use saxon from Michael Kay (www.saxonica.com) for programmatic XML validation. It's very good, but it does not proivided much more detailed error messages.
You mention that you need this during development time. Do you want to validate XML files that you construct by hand before using them in your application? In that case, I would suggest to invest in a XML editor that provides validation. These generally provide much more detailed error messages, including the line numbers where the error occurs. I use XML Studio from Progress, but there are others out there (Altova XML Spy, probably also some open source or Eclipse plug ins). The investment in the license has been paid back multiple times in saved effort. On 28 jul, 23:52, John Ivens <john.wagner.iv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, I tried one which produces some pretty bad messages, I will search for > something better, maybe xerces. > > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 07/26/2010 04:09 PM, John Ivens wrote: > > > I know that this is off topic for GWT, but if anyone knows of how to > > > validate an XML file directly by using something like Apache Commons > > > Validation, but without needing to create a bean or a form, I would > > > appreciate knowing about it. Basically, we have XML files that we would > > > like to validate directly out of XML, but using a validation in XML (in > > > a seperate or the same file). The reason we want to do this is that > > > during development we would like to have a very quick way of generating > > > validation without needing to be constantly updating screens and forms, > > > just change the XML (in one file or two, depending on what resources are > > > out there). > > > > Thanks in advance... > > > Any validating parser will do what you want. hint: the google search > > term is in this answer. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com > > . > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs > > > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs > > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
