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204 lines
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.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man
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.\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at:
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.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
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.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
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.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
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.TH "XMLWF" "1" "22 April 2002" "" ""
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.SH NAME
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xmlwf \- Determines if an XML document is well-formed
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBxmlwf\fR [ \fB-s\fR] [ \fB-n\fR] [ \fB-p\fR] [ \fB-x\fR] [ \fB-e \fIencoding\fB\fR] [ \fB-w\fR] [ \fB-d \fIoutput-dir\fB\fR] [ \fB-c\fR] [ \fB-m\fR] [ \fB-r\fR] [ \fB-t\fR] [ \fB-v\fR] [ \fBfile ...\fR]
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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.PP
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\fBxmlwf\fR uses the Expat library to determine
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if an XML document is well-formed. It is non-validating.
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.PP
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If you do not specify any files on the command-line,
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and you have a recent version of xmlwf, the input
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file will be read from stdin.
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.SH "WELL-FORMED DOCUMENTS"
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.PP
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A well-formed document must adhere to the
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following rules:
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.TP 0.2i
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\(bu
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The file begins with an XML declaration. For instance,
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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>.
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\fBNOTE:\fR xmlwf does not currently
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check for a valid XML declaration.
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.TP 0.2i
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\(bu
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Every start tag is either empty (<tag/>)
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or has a corresponding end tag.
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.TP 0.2i
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\(bu
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There is exactly one root element. This element must contain
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all other elements in the document. Only comments, white
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space, and processing instructions may come after the close
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of the root element.
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.TP 0.2i
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\(bu
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All elements nest properly.
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.TP 0.2i
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\(bu
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All attribute values are enclosed in quotes (either single
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or double).
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.PP
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If the document has a DTD, and it strictly complies with that
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DTD, then the document is also considered \fBvalid\fR.
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xmlwf is a non-validating parser -- it does not check the DTD.
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However, it does support external entities (see the -x option).
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.SH "OPTIONS"
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.PP
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When an option includes an argument, you may specify the argument either
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separate ("d output") or mashed ("-doutput"). xmlwf supports both.
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.TP
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\fB-c\fR
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If the input file is well-formed and xmlwf doesn't
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encounter any errors, the input file is simply copied to
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the output directory unchanged.
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This implies no namespaces (turns off -n) and
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requires -d to specify an output file.
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.TP
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\fB-d output-dir\fR
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Specifies a directory to contain transformed
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representations of the input files.
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By default, -d outputs a canonical representation
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(described below).
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You can select different output formats using -c and -m.
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The output filenames will
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be exactly the same as the input filenames or "STDIN" if the input is
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coming from STDIN. Therefore, you must be careful that the
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output file does not go into the same directory as the input
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file. Otherwise, xmlwf will delete the input file before
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it generates the output file (just like running
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cat < file > file in most shells).
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Two structurally equivalent XML documents have a byte-for-byte
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identical canonical XML representation.
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Note that ignorable white space is considered significant and
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is treated equivalently to data.
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More on canonical XML can be found at
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http://www.jclark.com/xml/canonxml.html .
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.TP
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\fB-e encoding\fR
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Specifies the character encoding for the document, overriding
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any document encoding declaration. xmlwf
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has four built-in encodings:
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US-ASCII,
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UTF-8,
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UTF-16, and
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ISO-8859-1.
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Also see the -w option.
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.TP
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\fB-m\fR
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Outputs some strange sort of XML file that completely
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describes the the input file, including character postitions.
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Requires -d to specify an output file.
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.TP
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\fB-n\fR
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Turns on namespace processing. (describe namespaces)
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-c disables namespaces.
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.TP
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\fB-p\fR
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Tells xmlwf to process external DTDs and parameter
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entities.
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Normally xmlwf never parses parameter entities.
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-p tells it to always parse them.
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-p implies -x.
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.TP
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\fB-r\fR
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Normally xmlwf memory-maps the XML file before parsing.
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-r turns off memory-mapping and uses normal file IO calls instead.
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Of course, memory-mapping is automatically turned off
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when reading from STDIN.
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.TP
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\fB-s\fR
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Prints an error if the document is not standalone.
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A document is standalone if it has no external subset and no
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references to parameter entities.
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.TP
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\fB-t\fR
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Turns on timings. This tells Expat to parse the entire file,
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but not perform any processing.
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This gives a fairly accurate idea of the raw speed of Expat itself
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without client overhead.
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-t turns off most of the output options (-d, -m -c, ...).
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.TP
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\fB-v\fR
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Prints the version of the Expat library being used, and then exits.
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.TP
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\fB-w\fR
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Enables Windows code pages.
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Normally, xmlwf will throw an error if it runs across
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an encoding that it is not equipped to handle itself. With
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-w, xmlwf will try to use a Windows code page. See
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also -e.
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.TP
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\fB-x\fR
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Turns on parsing external entities.
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Non-validating parsers are not required to resolve external
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entities, or even expand entities at all.
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Expat always expands internal entities (?),
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but external entity parsing must be enabled explicitly.
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External entities are simply entities that obtain their
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data from outside the XML file currently being parsed.
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This is an example of an internal entity:
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.nf
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<!ENTITY vers '1.0.2'>
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.fi
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And here are some examples of external entities:
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.nf
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<!ENTITY header SYSTEM "header-&vers;.xml"> (parsed)
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<!ENTITY logo SYSTEM "logo.png" PNG> (unparsed)
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.fi
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.TP
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\fB--\fR
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For some reason, xmlwf specifically ignores "--"
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anywhere it appears on the command line.
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.PP
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Older versions of xmlwf do not support reading from STDIN.
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.SH "OUTPUT"
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.PP
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If an input file is not well-formed, xmlwf outputs
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a single line describing the problem to STDOUT.
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If a file is well formed, xmlwf outputs nothing.
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Note that the result code is \fBnot\fR set.
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.SH "BUGS"
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.PP
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According to the W3C standard, an XML file without a
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declaration at the beginning is not considered well-formed.
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However, xmlwf allows this to pass.
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.PP
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xmlwf returns a 0 - noerr result, even if the file is
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not well-formed. There is no good way for a program to use
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xmlwf to quickly check a file -- it must parse xmlwf's STDOUT.
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.PP
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The errors should go to STDERR, not stdout.
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.PP
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There should be a way to get -d to send its output to STDOUT
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rather than forcing the user to send it to a file.
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.PP
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I have no idea why anyone would want to use the -d, -c
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and -m options. If someone could explain it to me, I'd
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like to add this information to this manpage.
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.SH "ALTERNATIVES"
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.PP
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Here are some XML validators on the web:
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.nf
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http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~richard/xml-check.html
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http://www.stg.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/
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http://www.scripting.com/frontier5/xml/code/xmlValidator.html
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http://www.xml.com/pub/a/tools/ruwf/check.html
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