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

We build our project using ant, so we can use the schemavalidate task to check our config files:

<schemavalidate> 
    <fileset dir="${configdir}" includes="**/*.xml" />
</schemavalidate>

Now naughty config files will fail our build!

http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/schemavalidate.html