XML Validator

function validateXML(xmlString) {
  const parser = new DOMParser()
  const doc = parser.parseFromString(xmlString, 'application/xml')
  const error = doc.querySelector('parsererror')
  if (error) {
    return { valid: false, message: error.textContent }
  }
  return { valid: true, message: 'Well-formed XML' }
}

validateXML('<root><item>hello</item></root>')
// → { valid: true, message: "Well-formed XML" }

validateXML('<root><item>hello</root>')
// → { valid: false, message: "Opening and ending tag mismatch..." }

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

def validate_xml(xml_string):
    try:
        ET.fromstring(xml_string)
        return True, "Well-formed XML"
    except ET.ParseError as e:
        return False, str(e)

valid, msg = validate_xml('<root><item>hello</item></root>')
# → (True, "Well-formed XML")

valid, msg = validate_xml('<root><item>hello</root>')
# → (False, "mismatched tag: line 1, column 27")

# With lxml — also supports XSD schema validation
from lxml import etree
schema = etree.XMLSchema(etree.parse('schema.xsd'))
doc = etree.fromstring(b'<root><item>hello</item></root>')
schema.validate(doc)  # → True or False

package main

import (
    "encoding/xml"
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func validateXML(raw string) error {
    decoder := xml.NewDecoder(strings.NewReader(raw))
    for {
        _, err := decoder.Token()
        if err != nil {
            if err.Error() == "EOF" {
                return nil
            }
            return err
        }
    }
}

func main() {
    err := validateXML("<root><item>hello</item></root>")
    fmt.Println(err) // → <nil>

    err = validateXML("<root><item>hello</root>")
    fmt.Println(err) // → XML syntax error: unexpected end element </root>
}

# Check well-formedness (part of libxml2, pre-installed on macOS/Linux)
xmllint --noout document.xml
# Exit code 0 = valid, non-zero = errors printed to stderr

# Validate against an XSD schema
xmllint --noout --schema schema.xsd document.xml

# Validate against a DTD
xmllint --noout --dtdvalid schema.dtd document.xml

# Validate from stdin
echo '<root><unclosed>' | xmllint --noout -
# → :1: parser error : Premature end of data in tag unclosed line 1