Automatic XSD validation

Question

According to the lxml documentation \"The DTD is retrieved automatically based on the DOCTYPE of the parsed document. All you have to do is use a parser that has DTD validat

Answer 1

You could extract the schemas yourself and import them into a root schema:

from lxml import etree

XSI = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
XS = '{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}'


SCHEMA_TEMPLATE = """

"""


def validate_XML(xml):
    """Validate an XML file represented as string. Follow all schemaLocations.

    :param xml: XML represented as string.
    :type xml: str
    """
    tree = etree.XML(xml)
    schema_tree = etree.XML(SCHEMA_TEMPLATE)
    # Find all unique instances of 'xsi:schemaLocation="  ..."'
    schema_locations = set(tree.xpath("//*/@xsi:schemaLocation", namespaces={'xsi': XSI}))
    for schema_location in schema_locations:
        # Split namespaces and schema locations ; use strip to remove leading
        # and trailing whitespace.
        namespaces_locations = schema_location.strip().split()
        # Import all found namspace/schema location pairs
        for namespace, location in zip(*[iter(namespaces_locations)] * 2):
            xs_import = etree.Element(XS + "import")
            xs_import.attrib['namespace'] = namespace
            xs_import.attrib['schemaLocation'] = location
            schema_tree.append(xs_import)
    # Contstruct the schema
    schema = etree.XMLSchema(schema_tree)
    # Validate!
    schema.assertValid(tree)

BTW, your simpletest.xsd is missing the targetNamespace.

With the code above, your example document validates against this schema.