If you use a specific conversion of CSV to XML then convert your CSV file to XML then validate it using XSD
---------------------------------------- David A. Lee d...@calldei.com<mailto:d...@calldei.com> http://www.xmlsh.org From: kamal kaur [mailto:kamal.k.k...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 1:27 PM To: j-users@xerces.apache.org Subject: Validating CSV against XSD Hi all, We have a flat XSD, so instead of storing the data in XML we are thinking of storing in CSV format as the data can be really huge. Assuming we know the Element Type of each record in CSV, is there a way to validate these records in CSV against XSD? thanks Kamal