I was a Mac user with BBEdit & Co. Now I'm on Windows with VS Code. I'm looking for an easy solution to validate XML with VS Code. Is there an extension for this?
Thanks!
For validation against a schema there is XML extension by Red Hat https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-xml this no longer requires Java since v0.15.0.
It supports a few ways of associating an *.xml
with an *.xsd
or *.dtd
see the docs at https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-xml/blob/master/docs/Validation.md#validation-with-xsd-grammar
Most methods involve modifying the files or creating a catalog file but you can also associate files using settings.json
.
"xml.fileAssociations": [
{
"pattern": "foo.xml",
"systemId": "foo.xsd"
}
]
"xml.fileAssociations": [
{
"pattern": "foo.xml",
"systemId": "foo.dtd"
}
]
File paths support wildcards and VS Code variables ${workspaceFolder}, ${fileDirname}, ${fileBasenameNoExtension}
I just wanted to know if my xml syntax was valid, and I didn't want to have to install and setup Java.
XML Tools from Qub worked great for me, I highly recommend it:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=qub.qub-xml-vscode
If you need to validate xml against a schema, some of the other more popular extensions might be better
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