Software Update: XML Nanny 2.0 Beta 3

XML Nanny is a handy tool that allows you to validate XHTML and XML documents for their Well-Formedness. The program is only available for the Mac OS X platform and can validate the various documents both locally and over the network. The developer recently released the third beta version of XML Nanny 2.0 in which a lot has changed. For example, Relax NG and Schematron 1.5 are supported and many small improvements can be found. The list of customizations looks like this:

XML Nanny 2.0 is a complete rewrite (shudder) of XML Nanny, with tons of sexy new features:

• RELAX NG Support. Use XML Nanny to validate XML instance documents against RELAX NG schemas in both XML and compact syntax!
• Schematron 1.5 Support. Use XML Nanny to validate instance docs against Schematron schemas with assertions, reports, pattern tests, and diagnostic information reported throught the UI.
• Specify XSD, RNG and RNC files through the UI. So far, you can’t do this for DTDs… for those you still need to embed a DOCTYPE in your instance doc.
• Specify your desired validation type (None, DTD, WXS, RNG, RNC or schematron) through the UI.
• Verbose Parsing mode provides intimate instance doc/DTD details through the UI… kinda like a visual SAX parser.
• Saved parse settings to .nanny files. This is XML Nanny’s answer to bookmarking. Set up an XML Nanny window with your parse settings and save them to disk for use later or for sharing with friends! 🙂
• Open errors in source document in BBEdit for editing. Now you can click on an error or warning item in the XML Nanny result list to open the source document in BBEdit with the error highlighted. In the future, we will generalize this to use of the external editor of your choice.
• Mime-type and encoding values ​​sent to XML Nanny from a web server via HTTP headers are now reported.
• Internal DTD subsets now supported (a nasty bug in XML Nanny 1.0 would cause a crash on encountering an internal subset).
• XML Namespace setting allows you to parse with namespaces on or off.
• Full Contrast Check setting for XSD parsing.
• Change result text size using command-+ and command-minus.

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