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# Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
"""
Functions to do XML schema and DTD validation. At the moment, this
makes a subprocess call to xmllint. This could use a Python-based
library at some point in the future, if something appropriate could be
found.
"""
import os
def validate_schema(filename, schema_file):
"""
Validates an XML file against a schema or DTD.
Parameters
----------
filename : str
The path to the XML file to validate
schema : str
The path to the XML schema or DTD
Returns
-------
returncode, stdout, stderr : int, str, str
Returns the returncode from xmllint and the stdout and stderr
as strings
"""
import subprocess
base, ext = os.path.splitext(schema_file)
if ext == '.xsd':
schema_part = '--schema ' + schema_file
elif ext == '.dtd':
schema_part = '--dtdvalid ' + schema_file
else:
raise TypeError("schema_file must be a path to an XML Schema or DTD")
p = subprocess.Popen(
"xmllint --noout --nonet %s %s" % (schema_part, filename),
shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
if p.returncode == 127:
raise OSError(
"xmllint not found, so can not validate schema")
return p.returncode, stdout, stderr