xmlserializer validation

Question

I\'m using XmlSerializer to deserialize Xml achives. But I found the class xsd.exe generated only offers capability to read the xml, but no validation. For example, if one n

Answer 1

The following code will manually load and validate your XML against a schema file programmatically, allowing you to deal with any resulting errors and/or warnings.

//Read in the schema document
using (XmlReader schemaReader = XmlReader.Create("schema.xsd"))
{
    XmlSchemaSet schemaSet = new XmlSchemaSet();

    //add the schema to the schema set
    schemaSet.Add(XmlSchema.Read(schemaReader, 
    new ValidationEventHandler(
        delegate(Object sender, ValidationEventArgs e)
        {
        }    
    )));

    //Load and validate against the programmatic schema set
    XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
    xmlDocument.Schemas = schemaSet;
    xmlDocument.Load("something.xml");

    xmlDocument.Validate(new ValidationEventHandler(
        delegate(Object sender, ValidationEventArgs e)
        {
            //Report or respond to the error/warning
        }
    )); 
 }

Now obviously you desire to have the classes generated by xsd.exe to do this automatically and while loading (the above approach would require a second handling of the XML file), but a pre-load validate would allow you to programmatically detect a malformed input file.