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Old 01-09-2013
XML validation

Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to validate the xmls that are getting generated by an application if it is well formed or not.

If it has generated incomplete xml (such as missing tags), then I need to correct it using some UNIX commands and have to process it.

I even gone through xmllint tool, but I could not understand how and what exactly it works and also could not understand how to use it.

Could anyone please help on this?

My XML look like below

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ProductInformation WorkspaceID="afjeqoe">
  <Qualifiers>
    <Qualifier ID="1">
      <DimensionPointLink DimensionPointID="eng"/>
    </Qualifier>
    <Qualifier ID="2">
      <DimensionPointLink DimensionPointID="std.lang.all"/>
    </Qualifier>
    <Qualifier ID="3">
      <DimensionPointLink DimensionPointID="USMarket"/>
    </Qualifier>
    <Qualifier ID="Qualifier root"/>
  </Qualifiers>
  <UnitList>
</ProductInformation>

# 2  
Old 01-10-2013
Assuming your XML document is called output.xml, here is what xmllint outputs:
Code:
xmllint output.xml
output.xml:16: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: UnitList line 15 and ProductInformation
</ProductInformation>
                     ^
output.xml:17: parser error : Premature end of data in tag ProductInformation line 2

^

It clearly shows that the error is on line 15 and is due to the UnitList element not having a matching opening and closing tag. This is correct.

As to fixing XML documents that are not well formed, in the general case that is not possible due to too many variables. However if you have a good XML Schema, it is possible.
 
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