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<title>XMLValidate Task</title>
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<h2><a name="xmlvalidate">XMLValidate</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
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This task checks xml files are valid (or only well formed). The task uses crimson SAX2 parser implementation by default, but one can specify any SAX1/2 parser if needed
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<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">file</td>
<td valign="top">the file(s) you want to check. (optionally can use an embedded fileset)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">lenient</td>
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if true, only check the xml document is well formed
(ignored if the specified parser is as SAX1 parser)
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<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">classname</td>
<td valign="top">the parser to use. (default: crimson).</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">classpathref</td>
<td valign="top">where to find the parser class. Optionally can use an embedded classpath element.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">failonerror</td>
<td valign="top">fails on a error if set to true (defaults to true).</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">warn</td>
<td valign="top">log parser warn events.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<h3><a name="nested">Nested Elements</a></h3>
<h4>dtd</h4>
<dtd> is used to specify different locations for DTD resolution.
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<td width="12%" valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td width="78%" valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td width="10%" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">publicId</td>
<td valign="top">Public ID of the DTD to resolve</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">location</td>
<td valign="top">Location of the DTD to use, which can be a file,
a resource, or a URL</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
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<xmlvalidate file="toto.xml"/>
<xmlvalidate failonerror="no" lenient="yes" warn="yes"
classname="org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser" >
classpath="lib/xerces.jar">
<fileset dir="src" includes="style/*.xsl"/>
</xmlvalidate>
<xmlvalidate file="struts-config.xml" warn="false">
<dtd publicId="-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.0//EN"
location="struts-config_1_0.dtd"/>
</xmlvalidate>
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