Was looking for a way to validate a xml file and came across a lot of posts of xmllint, which looked promising. However the Windows interpretation didn't seem to work correctly as it should have.
Eventually I came across XMLStarlet. It allows to be run on the command line and is able to validate and convert a XML file into other formats. Sounds good, but will it work?
First I tested the full xml file for its validation:
C:\Downloads>xml.exe --help
XMLStarlet Toolkit: Command line utilities for XML
Usage: xml.exe [<options>] <command> [<cmd-options>]
where <command> is one of:
ed (or edit) - Edit/Update XML document(s)
sel (or select) - Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc)
tr (or transform) - Transform XML document(s) using XSLT
val (or validate) - Validate XML document(s) (well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG)
fo (or format) - Format XML document(s)
el (or elements) - Display element structure of XML document
c14n (or canonic) - XML canonicalization
ls (or list) - List directory as XML
esc (or escape) - Escape special XML characters
unesc (or unescape) - Unescape special XML characters
pyx (or xmln) - Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879)
p2x (or depyx) - Convert PYX into XML
<options> are:
-q or --quiet - no error output
--doc-namespace - extract namespace bindings from input doc (default)
--no-doc-namespace - don't extract namespace bindings from input doc
--version - show version
--help - show help
Wherever file name mentioned in command help it is assumed
that URL can be used instead as well.
Type: xml.exe <command> --help <ENTER> for command help
XMLStarlet is a command line toolkit to query/edit/check/transform
XML documents (for more information see http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/)
C:\Downloads>xml.exe val xmlfile.xml
xmlfile.xml - valid
So far so good. But what happens if I change the xml file and remove some closing tag?
C:\Downloads>xml.exe val xmlfile.xml
xmlfile.xml - invalid
Great, exactly what I needed!
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