XML Validator Please?? 2

[qajussi]

Hi!

I am looking for XML validator for a folder containing very large files.
I found a few validator which can do one file at a time.
But I need something easy to use and run on a folder.

I have about 20,000 XML files.
I know some of files have ">,<,&" signs in the file.
I need to find those files and correct them.

Do you know any XML validator which will run on a folder containing xml files???
Thanks millions

 

[flumpy]

sounds like the best thing to do is to write your own in vbscript or something using msxml

should be faily simple to read in a file at a time and use MSXML4.0 to validate the xml, catching the errors when the parser loads the file and printing out the filename...


Matt

 

[harebrain]

If that's the only problem (and you're on unix) use a sed script to handle the entities (omit the spaces in this code):

/\&/s//\& amp;/g
/\</s//\& lt;/g

Wrap it up in a shell script to iterate over all the files in the folder.

 

[qajussi]

Thanks Guys.

I am on Windows.
I will play around with the VBScript later.
So there are no XML validators out there??

 

[harebrain]

Oops! For anyone else who might see this, I neglected to mention that the above sed script assumes you have plain text that you're attempting to convert to XML. If you're starting with XML that has stray entities, this would just compound the problem. Sorry.

 

[harebrain]

Have you searched the MSDN area? (

http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/)

 

[qajussi]

Yes.. I looked but can't find one that handles a folder containg xml files..

Thanks very much for your input.

 

[harebrain]

Ok, furthermore, you seem to be confusing the concepts of a document being well-formed (syntactically correct) and valid (conforming to a given schema or DTD.) You don't need a validator. Yours is a syntax problem. Any XML parser will complain about syntax problems.