XML Schema Validator for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. XvalidatR uses external schemas (XSD files).

1. Download the zip file for your machine from the GitHub release tab (https://github.com/andreburgaud/xvalidatr/releases).
2. Extract xvalidatr or xvalidatr.exe from the zip file
3. Copy the executable into a directory included in your PATH

To only validate the XML schema:

xvalidatr books.xsd

To validate an XML file against an XML schema:

xvalidatr books.xsd books.xml

To validate several XML files against an XML schema:

xvalidatr books.xsd *.xml

To validate several XML files in a directory against XML schema:

xvalidatr books.xsd xml

Notes:

• You can combine the different options (i.e. directory containing XML files, wild cards, individual files).
• The examples provided above can all be tested from the directory tests included in the repository.
• The search is recursive when passing a valid directory as argument. It searches for all *.xml files in the given directory and all subdirectories.
• To restrict XML file validation to a directory level (not its subdirectories), the argument can be a directory and a wild card for the files. For example, if the directory is named xml, the argument can be given as: xml/*.xml. This will prevent to search any xml file with extention .xml in each subdirectory.

Prerequisite: Install dotnet (see https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download)

Debug build:

dotnet build

Standalone release executable:

dotnet publish --configuration Release --self-contained --runtime win-x64

To create a zip file with the standalone executable (assuming version 2.0.0):

powershell -Command "Compress-Archive -Path 'bin\Release\net8.0\win-x64\publish\xvalidatr.exe' -DestinationPath 'xvalidatr_win-x64_2.0.0.zip'"

Prerequisite: install dotnet (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu).

Debug build:

dotnet build

Release build:

dotnet publish

Standalone release executable:

dotnet publish --configuration Release --self-contained --runtime <runtime_id>

For example, the runtime_id is linux-x64 on a Linux x86-64 machine and osx-arm64 for a Mac M1 or M2. You can find the list of all RIDs at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog.

Clean the project:

dotnet clean