Re: Validate XML schema without instance file?

[Alberto Massari <am...@datadirect.com>]

Hi Tony,
please use c-users@xerces.apache.org for Xerces-related questions: 
you reach a wider audience and the answer could be useful for other readers.

At 14.28 14/02/2007 +0800, Wang Tony wrote:
>Hello Alberto,
>
>I am working with Xerces-C 2.7 and I notice one of features in 2.7 
>version is " Feature to do schema-only validation even if there is a 
>DTD". Does it mean 2.7 support validating schema or DTD without instance file?

No, it means that when validating an XML that has both a DOCTYPE and 
a xsi:schemaLocation, the DOCTYPE is ignored and only the XMLSchema 
validation is performed.

>If it means this, how to use it in code ? Is there any sample or 
>documentation about it? I searched Xerces document and do not find 
>anything about it.

If you want to validate a single XMLSchema or a DTD you should use 
loadGrammar that loads (and validates) a schema file.

Alberto