Omari Norman wrote: > My app needs to validate XML. That's easy enough in Unix. What is the > best way to do it in Windows? > > The most obvious choice would of course be PyXML. However, apparently it > is no longer maintained: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6473 > > so there are no Windows binaries that work with Python 2.5. Getting > other XML libraries like libxml2 also seems to be quite difficult on > Windows. > > Has anyone else dealt with this problem and found a solution? It would > even be fine if I could find a free command-line validator that I could > invoke with subprocess, but I haven't even had luck with that.
lxml has statically built Windows binaries available for version 1.2.1, those for 1.3.2 should become available soon. It supports RelaxNG, XMLSchema, DTDs and (with a little patching) Schematron. http://codespeak.net/lxml/ Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
