What's the best way to validate an XML file against an XSD file?

Question

I\'m generating some xml files that needs to conform to an xsd file that was given to me. What\'s the best way to verify they conform?

Answer 1

If you are generating XML files programatically, you may want to look at the XMLBeans library. Using a command line tool, XMLBeans will automatically generate and package up a set of Java objects based on an XSD. You can then use these objects to build an XML document based on this schema.

It has built-in support for schema validation, and can convert Java objects to an XML document and vice-versa.

Castor and JAXB are other Java libraries that serve a similar purpose to XMLBeans.