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Revision as of 21:29, 9 October 2013

This XQuery Module contains functions to perform validations against XML Schema and Document Type Declarations. By default, this module uses Java’s standard validators. As an alternative, Saxon XSLT Processor is used if (saxon9he.jar, saxon9pe.jar or saxon9ee.jar) is added to the classpath.

Conventions

All functions in this module are assigned to the http://basex.org/modules/validate namespace, which is statically bound to the validate prefix.
All errors are assigned to the http://basex.org/errors namespace, which is statically bound to the bxerr prefix.

Functions

validate:xsd

Signatures validate:xsd($input as item()) as empty-sequence()
validate:xsd($input as item(), $schema as item()) as empty-sequence()
Summary Validates the document specified by $input. Both $input and $schema can be specified as:
  • xs:string, containing the path to the resource,
  • xs:string, containing the resource in its string representation, or
  • node(), containing the resource itself.

$schema can be used to specify the schema for validation. If no schema is given, $input is required to contain an xsi:(noNamespace)schemaLocation attribute as defined in W3C XML Schema.

Errors BXVA0001: the validation fails.
BXVA0002: the validation process cannot be started.
Examples
  • validate:xsd('doc.xml', 'doc.xsd') validates the document doc.xml against the specified schema doc.xsd.
  • The following example demonstrates how a document can be validated against a schema without resorting to local or remote URIs:
let $doc := <simple:root xmlns:simple='http://basex.org/simple'/>
let $schema :=
  <xs:schema xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' targetNamespace='http://basex.org/simple'>
    <xs:element name='root'/>
  </xs:schema>
return validate:xsd($doc, $schema)

validate:xsd-info

Signatures validate:xsd-info($input as item()) as xs:string*
validate:xsd-info($input as item(), $schema as item()) as xs:string*
Summary Validates the document specified by $input and returns warning, errors and fatal errors in a string sequence. $input and $schema can be specified as:
  • xs:string, containing the path to the resource,
  • xs:string, containing the resource in its string representation, or
  • node(), containing the resource itself.

$schema can be used to specify the schema for validation. If no schema is given, $input is required to contain an xsi:(noNamespace)schemaLocation attribute as defined in W3C XML Schema.

Errors BXVA0002: the validation process cannot be started.

validate:dtd

Signatures validate:dtd($input as item()) as empty-sequence()
validate:dtd($input as item(), $dtd as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary Validates the document specified by $input. $input can be specified as:
  • an xs:string, containing the path to the resource,
  • an xs:string, containing the resource in its string representation, or
  • a node(), containing the resource itself.

$schema can be used to specify the DTD for validation. If no DTD is given, $input is required to contain a DTD doctype declaration.

Errors BXVA0001: the validation fails.
BXVA0002: the validation process cannot be started.
Examples
  • validate:dtd('doc.xml', 'doc.dtd') validates the document doc.xml against the specified DTD file doc.dtd.
  • The following example validates an invalid document against a DTD, which is specified as string:
try {
  let $doc := <invalid/>
  let $dtd := '<!ELEMENT root (#PCDATA)>'
  return validate:dtd($doc, $dtd)
} catch BXVA0001 {
  'DTD Validation failed.'
}

validate:dtd-info

Signatures validate:dtd-info($input as item()) as xs:string*
validate:dtd-info($input as item(), $dtd as xs:string) as xs:string*
Summary Validates the document specified by $input and returns warning, errors and fatal errors in a string sequence. $input can be specified as:
  • xs:string, containing the path to the resource,
  • xs:string, containing the resource in its string representation, or
  • node(), containing the resource itself.

$schema can be used to specify the DTD for validation. If no DTD is given, $input is required to contain a DTD doctype declaration.

Errors BXVA0002: the validation process cannot be started.

Errors

Code Description
BXVA0001 The document cannot be validated against the specified DTD or XML Schema.
BXVA0002 The validation cannot be started.

Changelog

Version 7.6

The module was introduced with Version 7.3.