validate XML with XSD

[goBoating]

Hello All,
I've tried the search approach to no avail, so here's the question.

I'm trying to do a very simple thing, it would seem. On a Win32 platform, I'm trying to validate an XML document against its XSD. It is very straight forward with XML::LibXML on a Linux/Unix machine, but, LibXML is a GNOME project. I've found a Win32 binary of the LibXML stuff, but, I can't get it to work. So, does anyone have any idea about how to validate an XML document with its associated XSD using ActivePerl on a Win32 machine?

I don't immediately see a clean way to do it in the ActivePerl docs, but, I'll keep digging. 'Seems like someone must have done this trick a thousand times before.

TIA

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[goBoating]

Ended up using the Apache Xerces libs and XML::Xerces Perl module. There are Win32 binaries of the libs available. See the site. And, the XML::Xerces install is a typical module install. The install bundle came with some examples. One of which was 'validate.pl' which does exactly what I was looking for. I modified the formating and content of the error reporting subs and little and it works nicely.

I don't know if this is the best possible way to do this trick, but, the Xerces project seems to be a solid project (part of the Apache foundation) and it works well.

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