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| <h2><a name="xmlvalidate">XMLValidate</a></h2> |
| <h3>Description</h3> |
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| <p>This task checks xml files are valid (or only well formed). The |
| task uses the SAX2 parser implementation provided by JAXP by default |
| (probably the one that is used by Ant itself), but one can specify any |
| SAX1/2 parser if needed.</p> |
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| <p>This task supports the use of nested |
| <li/><a href="../CoreTypes/xmlcatalog.html"><tt><xmlcatalog></tt></a> elements |
| <li/><tt><dtd></tt> elements which are used to resolve DTDs and entities. |
| <li/><tt><attribute></tt> elements which are used to set features on the parser. These can be any number of <a href="http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/package-summary.html#package_description">http://xml.org/sax/features/</a> or other features that your parser may support. |
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| <h3>Parameters</h3> |
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| <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> |
| <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> |
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| <td valign="top">file</td> |
| <td valign="top">the file(s) you want to check. (optionally can use an embedded fileset)</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">lenient</td> |
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| if true, only check the xml document is well formed |
| (ignored if the specified parser is as SAX1 parser) |
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| <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">classname</td> |
| <td valign="top">the parser to use.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">classpathref</td> |
| <td valign="top">where to find the parser class. Optionally can use an embedded classpath element.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">failonerror</td> |
| <td valign="top">fails on a error if set to true (defaults to true).</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">warn</td> |
| <td valign="top">log parser warn events.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
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| <h3><a name="nested">Nested Elements</a></h3> |
| <h4>dtd</h4> |
| <dtd> is used to specify different locations for DTD resolution. |
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| <td width="12%" valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> |
| <td width="78%" valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> |
| <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> |
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| <td valign="top">publicId</td> |
| <td valign="top">Public ID of the DTD to resolve</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td> |
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| <td valign="top">location</td> |
| <td valign="top">Location of the DTD to use, which can be a file, |
| a resource, or a URL</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td> |
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| <h4>xmlcatalog</h4> |
| <p>The <a href="../CoreTypes/xmlcatalog.html">xmlcatalog</a> |
| element is used to perform Entity resolution.</p> |
| <h4>attribute</h4> |
| <p>The attribute element is used to set SAX Parser features. |
| There can an arbitrary amount of attribute set as defined here: |
| <a href="http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/package-summary.html#package_description">http://xml.org/sax/features/</a> |
| A feature essentialy changes the mode of the parser. |
| <attribute> an attribute is used to set specific features on the parser. |
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| <td width="12%" valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> |
| <td width="78%" valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> |
| <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> |
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| <td valign="top">name</td> |
| <td valign="top">The name of the feature</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td> |
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| <td valign="top">value</td> |
| <td valign="top">The boolean value of the feature</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td> |
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| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| <pre> |
| <xmlvalidate file="toto.xml"/> |
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| Validate toto.xml |
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| <xmlvalidate failonerror="no" lenient="yes" warn="yes" |
| classname="org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser"> |
| classpath="lib/xerces.jar"> |
| <fileset dir="src" includes="style/*.xsl"/> |
| </xmlvalidate> |
| </pre> |
| Validate all .xsl files in src/style, but only warn if there is an error, rather than |
| halt the build. |
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| <xmlvalidate file="struts-config.xml" warn="false"> |
| <dtd publicId="-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.0//EN" |
| location="struts-config_1_0.dtd"/> |
| </xmlvalidate> |
| </pre> |
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| Validate a struts configuration, using a local copy of the DTD. |
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| <xmlvalidate failonerror="no"> |
| <fileset dir="${project.dir}" includes="**/*.xml"/> |
| <xmlcatalog refid="mycatalog"/> |
| </xmlvalidate> |
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| Scan all XML files in the project, using a predefined catalog to map URIs to local files. |
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| <xmlvalidate failonerror="no"> |
| <fileset dir="${project.dir}" includes="**/*.xml"/> |
| <xmlcatalog> |
| <dtd |
| publicId="-//ArielPartners//DTD XML Article V1.0//EN" |
| location="com/arielpartners/knowledgebase/dtd/article.dtd"/> |
| </xmlcatalog> |
| </xmlvalidate> |
| </pre> |
| Scan all XML files in the project, using the catalog defined inline. |
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| <xmlvalidate failonerror="yes" lenient="no" warn="yes"> |
| <fileset dir="xml" includes="**/*.xml"/> |
| <attribute name="http://xml.org/sax/features/validation" value="true"/> |
| <attribute name="http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema" value="true"/> |
| </xmlvalidate> |
| </pre> |
| Validate all .xml files in xml directory with the parser configured to perform schema validation. Note: The parser must support the <pre>http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema</pre> feature. |
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