chrisjrob: xml https://chrisjrob.com GNU Linux, Perl and FLOSS en-gb Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:22:31 +0000 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:22:31 +0000 Command line XML validator https://chrisjrob.com/2008/12/18/command-line-xml-validator/ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 chrisjrob@gmail.com (Chris Roberts) https://chrisjrob.com/2008/12/18/command-line-xml-validator I have always used the W3Schools On-line XML validator, but have always found it unreliable and I’ve never got it to validate against an XML schema file.

Thanks to Google I came across the following command (part of libxml2-utils):

$ xmllint --noout --schema schema.xsd file.xml

I find it amazing that all this time I had the perfect command pre-installed on my Linux desktop and I never knew.

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