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I’m writing an XML schema (an XSD) to describe the format our partners should send us data in.
And I’m having a hard time finding a tool that can validate the XSD schema file that I have written.
The best way I have found so far is to first write an example input XML file and then try to validate that with the XSD. But that doesn’t feel like a best practice maneuver.
So, how should I validate an XML schema?
If this is a short-term thing, you could use an evaluation copy of a tool like Stylus Studio.
If it’s long-term maintenance, you might want to consider purchasing an XML schema editor like Stylus, or Oxygen or Altova.
You didn’t specify the source language, but it’s only a few lines of code to write a schema validator in Java or .Net.