sanoj.varghese@g... wrote:

> I have an XML file which needs to be validated using VC++, not against
> the schema, BUT AGAINST THE TAGS. I need to check for start <>and end
> </>tags to see whether the XML is of proper format or not. How can i
> implement this. Can anyone provide some piece of code or ideas leading
> to a solution for this problem.

If you parse the XML document with an XML parser it will tell whether 
the XML is well-formed or not as the XML parser reports errors it finds.

With C++ you can use MSXML, any MSXML version (e.g. MSXML 3 or MSXML 6 
can do well-formedness checks), see the MSXML SDK
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/b24aafc2-bf1b-4702-bf1c-b7ae3597eb0c.asp>
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/14e70ac1-b724-498e-b6e1-7e3e1ae7bb6e.asp>
you simply need to call the load method of a DOMDocument and check the 
parseError.errorCode property.

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	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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