Hi,

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I use DOM methods to crawl through the XML to assure that the required node and attributes are in the package. There is usually an expectation of what should be in the package.

What does the DOM Validate method do?
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Pretty much the same thing <s>. You can either validate an XMLDocument against a scheme when it is loaded by setting the .validateOnParse property(VB example from documentation:)

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument30
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.validateOnParse = True
xmlDoc.Load "books.xml"
If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
   Dim myErr
   Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError
   MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason)
End If

or achieve the same thing after loading with:

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument30
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.Load "books.xml"
xmlDoc.Validate
If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
   Dim myErr
   Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError
   MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason)
End If

The benefit of the later is that you can load the doc, add/change nodes and validate the modified result.

Regards,
Viv