How to validate an XML File in Python

File validation is a good way to ensure that the rest of your day remains running smoothly. Today we will be focusing on XML files. I will show you an effortless solution that will forever remove broken XML from your life. Let’s begin.

Using this Cloudmersive API, we can slim down the work required from us today to almost nothing:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Calling validate_document_xml_validation comes next. This will require an API instance to work. Here’s how to go about creating that and using it:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ValidateDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Validate an XML file
api_response = api_instance.validate_document_xml_validation(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ValidateDocumentApi->validate_document_xml_validation: %s\n" % e)

Now we just need a file path and we have officially hit pay dirt! That’s right, all finished.

Victory!