July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
479 pages
12h 30m
English
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Test XML Documents Online
Are your XML documents syntactically correct? Find out how and where to check XML documents using online resources.
Several web sites allow you to test your XML documents online to make sure that they are well-formed and/or valid. This hack introduces three such sites: RUWF, RXP, and Brown University’s XML validation form.
RUWF
One site that does well-formedness checks is XML.com’s RUWF—Are You Well-Formed? (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/tools/ruwf/check.html)—which is implemented in Perl using XML::Parser (http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1998/11/xml.html). RUWF accepts a URL for an XML document or allows you to paste an XML document into a text box.
Figure 1-14 shows a copy of time.xml pasted into the text box, and Figure 1-15 shows the result of clicking the RUWF? button. (You could also test an online copy of time.xml, http://www.wyeast.net/time.xml, by entering the URL into the “Your URL” text box.)
Figure 1-14. XML.com’s RUWF
Figure 1-15. Results of checking time.xml with RUWF
RXP
Richard Tobin of the University of Edinburgh has created RXP, a validating XML processor that is available online (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/xml-check.html) or from the command line [Hack #9] .
As mentioned earlier, the document time.xml is available on my web site at http://www.wyeast.net/time.xml ...
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