Posted by ashepherd on August 11, 2014 at 4:09pm
Is anyone generating ISO XML metadata from Drupal? If so, do you have any routines that validate the XML generated? I'm generating ISO 19115-2 and I'm trying to find the best way to validate the XML in Drupal.
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Sorry
Sorry, we don't use ISO XML that at the current time. But I'm very curious to see what responses you receive.
Hi Adam, We make ISO XML from
Hi Adam,
We make ISO XML from DEIMS, but do not validate the outcome of ISO.
There are two related issues here - the ISO XML schemas (xsd) are still evolving - we actually use ISO extensions 19109 and/or 19110 to describe attribute level information (variables, i.e; columns in a spreadsheet). This technique is still in the long process of ISO approval - and schemas are a separate thing.
As for validation, I would use a service if there is one for the ISO North American Profile, but there is none to my knowledge. Alternatively, if you had a schema, you may investigate the PHP functions to handle XML, particularly the XMLReader class (see http://php.net/manual/en/book.xmlreader.php ) this would have to go in a custom module (xml-validate or so).
Personally, in the absence of a service, I validate offline using a client or XMLSpy or oXygen.
Inigo
Hey folks, Just wanted to
Hey folks, Just wanted to follow up with your suggestions. So, I decided to use PHP's
DOMDocument->schemaValidate(), which wasn't working initially for me because I had an older version of libXML on our web server. One I upgraded to libXML 2.8, the schema validation worked against the ISO xsd: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/schema.xsdI really appreciate everyone's feedback. thanks!