Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Input Validation in XMLToCSVBasic.cpp

As I noted, the default behavior of the load method is to validate while parsing. So, if we haven't specified validation on the command line, we want to disable validation while loading. We do that by setting the validateOnParse property of the DOM Document to false.

spDocInput->validateOnParse = VARIANT_FALSE;

But what should we do if we want to validate? Do we perform validation while parsing via the load method, or do we just load without validation and then call validate? The quick answer is “both.” We want to validate while parsing and call the validate method. Why both calls? The main reason is that the validate method does not report as much error information in the ParseError object as does the ...