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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../stylesheets/style.css">
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<title>XMLValidate Task</title>
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<h2><a name="xmlvalidate">XMLValidate</a></h2>
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<h3>Description</h3>
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<p>This task checks that XML files are valid (or only well formed). The
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task uses the SAX2 parser implementation provided by JAXP by default
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(probably the one that is used by Ant itself), but one can specify any
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SAX1/2 parser if needed.</p>
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<p>This task supports the use of nested
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<li><a href="../CoreTypes/xmlcatalog.html"><tt><xmlcatalog></tt></a> elements</li>
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<li><tt><dtd></tt> elements which are used to resolve DTDs and entities</li>
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<li><tt><attribute></tt> elements which are used to set features on the parser.
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These can be any number of
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<a href="http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/package-summary.html#package_description"><tt>http://xml.org/sax/features/</tt></a>
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or other features that your parser may support.</li>
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<li><tt><property></tt> elements, containing string properties
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<p><b>Warning</b> : JAXP creates by default a non namespace aware parser.
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The <tt>"http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces"</tt> feature is set
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by default to <tt>false</tt> by the JAXP implementation used by ant. To validate
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a document containing namespaces,
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set the namespaces feature to <tt>true</tt> explicitly by nesting the following element:
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<pre>
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<attribute name="http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces" value="true"/>
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</pre>
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If you are using for instance a <tt>xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation</tt> attribute in your XML files,
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you will need this namespace support feature.
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</p>
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<p>If you are using a parser not generated by JAXP, by using the <tt>classname</tt> attribute of xmlvalidate, this warning
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may not apply.</p>
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<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
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<tr>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
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<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
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<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">file</td>
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<td valign="top">the file(s) you want to check. (optionally can use an embedded fileset)</td>
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<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">lenient</td>
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<td valign="top">
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if true, only check the XML document is well formed
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(ignored if the specified parser is a SAX1 parser)
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</td>
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<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">classname</td>
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<td valign="top">the parser to use.</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">classpathref</td>
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<td valign="top">where to find the parser class. Optionally can use an embedded <tt><classpath></tt> element.</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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</tr>
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<td valign="top">failonerror</td>
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<td valign="top">fails on a error if set to true (defaults to true).</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">warn</td>
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<td valign="top">log parser warn events.</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h3><a name="nested">Nested Elements</a></h3>
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<h4>dtd</h4>
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<p>
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<tt><dtd></tt> is used to specify different locations for DTD resolution.
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</p>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
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<tr>
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<td width="12%" valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
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<td width="78%" valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
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<td width="10%" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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</tr>
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<td valign="top">publicId</td>
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<td valign="top">Public ID of the DTD to resolve</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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</tr>
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<td valign="top">location</td>
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<td valign="top">Location of the DTD to use, which can be a file,
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a resource, or a URL</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<h4>xmlcatalog</h4>
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<p>The <a href="../CoreTypes/xmlcatalog.html"><tt><xmlcatalog></tt></a>
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element is used to perform entity resolution.</p>
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<h4>attribute</h4>
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<p>The <tt><attribute></tt> element is used to set parser features.<br>
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Features usable with the xerces parser are defined here :
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<a href="http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/features.html">Setting features</a><br>
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SAX features are defined here:
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<a href="http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/package-summary.html#package_description"><tt>http://xml.org/sax/features/</tt></a><br>
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</p>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
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<tr>
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<td width="12%" valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
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<td width="78%" valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
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<td width="10%" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">name</td>
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<td valign="top">The name of the feature</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td valign="top">value</td>
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<td valign="top">The boolean value of the feature</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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</p>
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<h4>property</h4>
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<p>The <tt><property></tt> element is used to set properties.
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These properties are defined here for the xerces XML parser implementation :
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<a href="http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/properties.html">XML Parser properties</a>
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Properties can be used to set the schema used to validate the XML file.
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</p>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
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<tr>
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<td width="12%" valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
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<td width="78%" valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
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<td width="10%" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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</tr>
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<td valign="top">name</td>
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<td valign="top">The name of the feature</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">value</td>
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<td valign="top">The string value of the property</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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</p>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
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<xmlvalidate file="toto.xml"/>
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</pre>
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Validate toto.xml
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<xmlvalidate failonerror="no" lenient="yes" warn="yes"
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classname="org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser">
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classpath="lib/xerces.jar">
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<fileset dir="src" includes="style/*.xsl"/>
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</xmlvalidate>
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</pre>
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Validate all .xsl files in src/style, but only warn if there is an error, rather than
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halt the build.
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<xmlvalidate file="struts-config.xml" warn="false">
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<dtd publicId="-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.0//EN"
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location="struts-config_1_0.dtd"/>
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</xmlvalidate>
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</pre>
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Validate a struts configuration, using a local copy of the DTD.
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<xmlvalidate failonerror="no">
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<fileset dir="${project.dir}" includes="**/*.xml"/>
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<xmlcatalog refid="mycatalog"/>
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</xmlvalidate>
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</pre>
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Scan all XML files in the project, using a predefined catalog to map URIs to local files.
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<xmlvalidate failonerror="no">
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<fileset dir="${project.dir}" includes="**/*.xml"/>
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<xmlcatalog>
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<dtd
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publicId="-//ArielPartners//DTD XML Article V1.0//EN"
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location="com/arielpartners/knowledgebase/dtd/article.dtd"/>
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</xmlcatalog>
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</xmlvalidate>
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</pre>
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Scan all XML files in the project, using the catalog defined inline.
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<xmlvalidate failonerror="yes" lenient="no" warn="yes">
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<fileset dir="xml" includes="**/*.xml"/>
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<attribute name="http://xml.org/sax/features/validation" value="true"/>
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<attribute name="http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema" value="true"/>
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<attribute name="http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces" value="true"/>
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</xmlvalidate>
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</pre>
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Validate all .xml files in xml directory with the parser configured to perform XSD validation.
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Note: The parser must support the feature
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<code>http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema</code>.
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The <a href="schemavalidate.html">schemavalidate</a> task is better for validating
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W3C XML Schemas, as it extends this task with the right options automatically enabled,
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and makes it easy to add a list of schema files/URLs to act as sources.
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<!-- Converts path to URL format -->
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<pathconvert dirsep="/" property="xsd.file">
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<path>
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<pathelement location="xml/doc.xsd"/>
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</path>
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</pathconvert>
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<xmlvalidate file="xml/endpiece-noSchema.xml" lenient="false"
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failonerror="true" warn="true">
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<attribute name="http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema"
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value="true"/>
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<attribute name="http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces" value="true"/>
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<property
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name="http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation"
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value="${xsd.file}"/>
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</xmlvalidate>
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</pre>
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<br>
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Validate the file xml/endpiece-noSchema.xml against the schema xml/doc.xsd.
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<br>
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<hr>
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<p align="center">Copyright © 2001-2002,2004-2006 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights
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Reserved.</p>
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