Dear Przemek,
If you would like to test if the file conforms to XML syntax, e.g,
no-boundary-crossing, etc, you can just perform a well-formedness test
without a DTD.
My favorite tool for well-formedness test is xmlwf.
If you would like to test if the XML file contains valid tag-names,
attributes or values, you need to define a DTD for that file and to
perform a validness test with the DTD.
My favorite tool for validness test is xmllint.
I believe you can find open source implementations of both tools.
I am using those coming together with Cygwin.
Best Regards,
Jin-Dong
On 11/6/05, Przemek Kaszubski <przemka@amu.edu.pl> wrote:
> Dear Members,
>
> I'm looking for a flexible tool that would validate files tagged by my
> students. The tags follow the <tag>tagged_text</tag> convention but are
> not linked to any DTD, and entirely my own. I'd like to be able to test
> quickly if my students spelled the tag names correctly, closed the tags,
> applied the < and > symbols etc. The tagging scheme is simple (sth like
> 10-12 tags in all), with no embedding or special properties.
>
> Does anyone know of a tool or script of this kind, or perhaps developed one?
>
> Thank you for any help,
>
> Przemek
>
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