[SOLVED] XML validation in PHP4

[chombium]

Hi,

 

I need to write a client for a web service that

sends XML file as a response which I gave to validate.

 

Is there a way to validate a XML file against some

.XSD schema in PHP4?

 

Something similar to DomDocument class in PHP5

 

TIA, chombium

[chombium]

I've created a function that calls external program xmllinit which is a part of libxml2

 

here is the function:

 

// validation of the xml via external call to xmllint
// xml - full path to the xml file
// schema - full path to the xml schema file
// NOTE:
// This method is used because there isn't way to validate xml against
// xml schema in PHP4. For PHP5 you can use the DomDocument class

function validateXML ($xml, $schema) {
  exec("xmllint --schema $schema $xml",$output, $return_var);
        return $return_var;
}

 

The return value is the returned value from the execution of xmllinit program. You

can find the return values at http://xmlsoft.org/xmllint.html

 

HTH, chombium