[Corpora-List] Custom tagging validator

Fco. Mario Barcala Rodríguez lbarcala at freeresearch.org
Mon Nov 7 08:20:39 UTC 2005


> Dear Przemek,
>
> If you would like to test if the file conforms to XML syntax, e.g,
> no-boundary-crossing, etc, you can just perform a well-formedness test
> without a DTD.
> My favorite tool for well-formedness test is xmlwf.
>
> If you would like to test if the XML file contains valid tag-names,
> attributes or values, you need to define a DTD for that file and to
> perform a validness test with the DTD.
> My favorite tool for validness test is xmllint.
>
> I believe you can find open source implementations of both tools.
> I am using those coming together with Cygwin.
>

Another alternative is rxp. It's available in almost all Linux
distributions (GPL license) and freely downloadable.

Regards,

  Mario Barcala



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