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 have a Linux-Machine you could use the free command-line tool SAXCount. I found this very usefull.

SAXCount -f -s -n my.xml

It validates against dtd and xsd. 5s for a 50MB file.

In debian squeeze it is located in the package "libxerces-c-samples".

The definition of the dtd and xsd has to be in the xml! You can't config them separately.