note 62519 added to ref.xml

Validate an XML document against its DTD using PHP & xmllint <? # .e.g. validate this against foo.dtd $xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?> <!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM \"http://foo/foo.dtd\"> <foo> <bar>foobar</bar> <!--etc --> </foo>"; function validate_xml($xml) { $path = "/tmp/"; # path for tmp xml file $xmllint = "/usr/bin/xmllint"; # path to xmllint /* command-line options for xmllint: --htmlout html output --nowrap html header and footer removed (I prefer my own) --valid validate against specified DTD --noout no stdout (it's the stderr we want - we'll convert the stderr to stdout later on!) */ $opts = "--htmlout --nowrap --valid --noout"; # write to a temporary file $filename = $path . uniqid("x" . ".xml"); if(!$h = fopen($filename,'w')) { die("Could not open file for writing"); } if(!fwrite($h,$xml)) { die("Could not write to file"); } fclose($h); # need to convert stderr to stdout (the 2>&1 bit) exec("$xmllint $opts $filename 2>&1",$errors); # delete temporary file unlink($filename); # print validation errors if there are any if(count($errors) > 0) { foreach($errors as $v) { echo $v; } } } validate_xml($xml); ?> Ref: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/xmllint1.html ---- Server IP: 84.18.202.180 Probable Submitter: 80.229.2.35 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/62519 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62519/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62519/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62519/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62519/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62519/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62519/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/62519 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/62519 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php