Day: September 23, 2002

What I did on my day off

Slept in until 9.

Read my online comics page. Put off working out until afternoon.

Read the dead-tree newspaper.

Started cleaning my condo. Checked e-mail while cleaning office. Got sucked in to reading blogs and other sites.

Started sorting paper in my office. Got sucked in to updating records in financial software.

Checked e-mail at work. Discussed new buzzword-enhanced open source company with coworker. Suggested using CSS instead of writing printer-friendly code to another coworker.

Looked for XML software. Wrote weblog entry about XML software. Put off working out until later.

Realized I forgot some blogs earlier. Read them.

Checked web logs (er, web site logs). Nimda sucks. Decided to artificially mention Ashcroft, Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, Osama bin Laden, Hussein and Ashcroft just to inflate numbers on the Index of Evil (71 scans and counting, with no respite available.) (Updated–go away already: ipchains -I input -s 66.111.194.10/32 -j DENY)

Wrote weblog entry about my day off. Put off working out until tomorrow.

My kingdom for an XML validator

So all I want to find is an XML validator that will read the various documents I’ve written and check them against the various schemas and DTDs referred to by the namespaces within. I don’t want an editor or a tree browser or a schema builder or anything fancy, just a tool that I can use to check a bunch of files (find . -name *.xml | xargs validate). Something like that shouldn’t be that hard to find, should it?

Maybe there’s something inside Xerces2, but the README isn’t clear (or I’m just too dense to understand it).

As soon as I’ve finished writing one, of course, there will be twenty-seven better versions out there. So maybe that’s the solution to my predicament–if you build it, they will come, in an odd way.