Validating Tools

• Command line programs like XJParse

  D:\speaking\SD99EAST\dtds>java XJParse validhotcop.xml
  Fatal Error at (file file:/D:/speaking/SD99EAST/dtds/validhotcop.xml, line 2, ch
  ar 18): Unknown external identifier, "". "SYSTEM" or "PUBLIC" expected.
  validhotcop.xml: 251 ms (10 elems, 0 attrs, 0 spaces, 126 chars)
  
  D:\speaking\SD99EAST\dtds>java XJParse validhotcop.xml
  validhotcop.xml: 111 ms (10 elems, 0 attrs, 28 spaces, 98 chars)
  
  

• Online validators

  • http://www.stg.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/

  • http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Erichard/xml-check.html

• Browsers