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GRUMBLE
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From: Omicron Persei 8
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 05-03-2005 18:55

i'm developing an application and use XML files to define a custom fileformat.
now of course the XML has to have a certain structure or else the app will crash.

how can i define something like a doctype which the user can use to validate the XML?

DmS
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Sthlm, Sweden
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 05-03-2005 22:28

What you'd probably want to do is to create a DTD for the XML, a DTD is basically the rules used to validate the XML against.

Take a look here http://www.xmlfiles.com/dtd/ to see if you can make heads or tails of it, it's not crystal clear and dead simple if you have a lot of rules, that's for sure
/Dan

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Skaarjj
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From: :morF
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 05-04-2005 01:24

ALA has a fairly good article on this kind of thing... pardon me a moment while I dig it up...

Here we go


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GRUMBLE
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Omicron Persei 8
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 05-05-2005 19:14

thank you!

that will help me!



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