Scott's code and other ponderings... » XML http://www.scottleckie.com ...how hard can it be?... Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:55:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Validating XML Files against XSD Schemas (especially for files that don’t reference the schema) http://www.scottleckie.com/2009/07/validating-xml-files-against-xsd-schemas-especially-for-files-that-don%e2%80%99t-reference-the-schema/ http://www.scottleckie.com/2009/07/validating-xml-files-against-xsd-schemas-especially-for-files-that-don%e2%80%99t-reference-the-schema/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:04:00 +0000 Scott Leckie http://www.scottleckie.com/2009/07/validating-xml-files-against-xsd-schemas-especially-for-files-that-don%e2%80%99t-reference-the-schema/ Wow, XML is a pig, isn’t it? Don’t get me wrong; it does everything I need it to do in describing multi-faceted data, but it’s a pretty steep learning curve.

At first, I used XPath and a lot of coded validation. Then I finally invested time in learning XML Schemas (XSDs) and that helped a lot because I could validate the entire document and, only when I knew it was valid, start pulling data out of it. At around the same time, I stumbled upon LINQ to XML and this shortened the code substantially.  Now, all I had to do was validate the document against the XSD and, if it passed, get to decoding it via LINQ and we’re done and dusted [...]]]> http://www.scottleckie.com/2009/07/validating-xml-files-against-xsd-schemas-especially-for-files-that-don%e2%80%99t-reference-the-schema/feed/ 0