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DevC
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Reputation: 7423

Python xml.dom.minidom schema validation

Is there any pure Python way to validate XML files with XSD. My python version is 2.x (2.6/2.7) and the code is already using xml.dom.minidom for XML parsing. There are so many answers on StackOverflow but most are using ElementTree or lxml.

Is there any implementation with xml.dom.minidom?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2368

Answers (2)

DevC
DevC

Reputation: 7423

I couldn't find any thing using minidom, so I used lxml to validate xml against xsd

from lxml import etree

xmlschema_doc = etree.parse('schema.xsd')
xml_doc = etree.parse('my.xml')
xmlschema = etree.XMLSchema(xmlschema_doc)

if xmlschema.validate(xml_doc):
   print 'Valid xml'
else:
   print 'Invalid xml'

we can also use xmlschema.assertValid(xml_doc) to raise assertion exception

Upvotes: 1

user764357
user764357

Reputation:

As the name suggests, miniDom is a library for interacting with the Document Object Model (DOM) API. As wikipedia states:

The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML and XML documents.

It doesn't focus on the "validity" of the document, just that it is well-formed and able to be parsed and browsed.

As such, miniDom won't have any XML validation capability as this is beyond the scope of the DOM API.

Upvotes: 1

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