From: "Martin Povolný" <martin.povolny@...>
Date: 2005-02-27T19:01:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Validating XML Parser?

Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Through my employer I am involded in a rather major standardisation 
> effort in the Netherlands were we try to interconnect governmental 
> databases through XML/ReST based webservices (I've designed the 
> architecture and protocol). Yesterday I got permission from the Project 
> Board to use Ruby or Python as the prototyping language for use in the 
> implementation toolkit which will be distributed among implementors. 
> Well. that's the good news. The "bad" news is that a functional 
> requirement of any participating system is, that it can automaticaly 
> validate the XML messages against a provided schema. Unfortunately, 
> REXML, nice as it is, doesn't support XML validation in this manner.
> 
> Can anyone point me to a (schema based) validating XML parser which can 
> be used from Ruby? I've seen a reference to a Ruby binding for expat. 
> But that one dates from 2002.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Iwan
> 
> 

I have basic wrappers for schema and dtd validation in my version of 
libxml-ruby.

Download 
http://martin.solnet.cz/software/ruby/ruby-xml/libxml-ruby-latest.tar.bzip2

untar, ruby extconf.rb && make

cd tests
ruby -I.. schema-test.rb

ruby -I.. dtd-test.rb

Regards,

-- 
Mgr. Martin Povoln�, soLNet, s.r.o.,
+420777714458, martin.povolny@solnet.cz