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What is the difference between validation and parsing?
I know parsing check file structure (grammar), so
may be checked as OK in parsing function,
but may be WRONG in validation process because there is no attr value like “pink”? Am I right?
Parsing in xml terms is building a document tree from the xml data
Validation is checking the content of that tree against a schema
So if you had
It could be parsed because it has a root node and all open and close tags match up etc
If you validated against a schema which said the root node was Form though it would be invalid.