<xmlvalidate>
With Ant’s reliance on XML for its build files, it probably doesn’t come as a big surprise to learn of a task that will take an XML file and check it for errors. The <xmlvalidate> task will use the SAX parser that ships with Ant to validate a given file or list of XML files. You can of course use another implementation of a SAX processor if you want, by simply specifying the class name of the alternative.
Table 5.26 shows the list of attributes that are associated with this task.
| Attributes | Description |
|---|---|
| file | The file in which the task will run. You can optionally specify the list of files using a nested fileset element. |
| lenient | If set to true, the file is only checked to see it is ... |
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