atom-xmlvalidate package

Validate XML documents against their XSD schemas

Table of contents

• Installation
• Usage
• To-Do

Installation

Note: This package depends libxml which is a native library built using node-gyp. It's requirements are: github.com/nodejs/node-gyp

In short:

• node, npm and Python 2 (>=2.7.0)
• Some OS specific requirements:
  • MacOs: XCode
  • Windows: I got it working by first installing Windows SDK, Visual Studio 2013 Express; although the link above should have 'official'

To Install:

$ apm install atom-xmlvalidate

Or you can install through the Settings view by searching for 'XML Validate'.

Usage

• atom-xmlvalidate looks for a schema referenced in either the top level schemaLocation or noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute. Currently it only supports validating against a single schema, so when using the schemaLocation attribute there must be only one schema supplied in [namespace] [location] format

  Examples:

  <Pets noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://mynamespace.com/path/to/schemas/petSchema.xsd">
    <Dog />
    <Cat />
  </Pets>
  

  <mynamespace:Pets xmlns:mynamespace="http://mynamespace.com/Pets" schemaLocation="http://mynamespace.com/Pets http://mynamespace.com/path/to/schemas/petSchema.xsd">
    <Doc />
    <Cat />
  </mynamespace:Pets>
  

• Open the XML validation results panel by going to Packages -> XML Validate -> Toggle. Documents will automatically validate when they are saved.

• Force validation using the Validate XML context-menu item.

• Go to the Settings view for this package and set the Auto Open option which will cause the results panel to open automatically when an XML file is opened or saved.

To-Do

• Test installation and usage on *nix platforms
• Rewrite using a non-native XML validation library (which from what I can tell doesn't exist yet)