QUESTION: XML validation against a schema - for beginners

Question

Hi folks,
i am new to XML validation.
i would like to find out how to validate an XML file using a schema given to me by a third part company.
the business process requires that our company sends a weekly file which complies with their schema.
in real-life, i am expecting some details of our file to fail against their schema.
thus i would like to find a way validating the file localy before sending it to this third part.
this validation would ideally allow me to highlight and identify which records are failing the validation, and enable me to strip those and send only those that are successfully checked.
on the example below, i would expect to have the record for John Smith to be successful (country has an integer); while Queen Victoria would fail as it uses UK instead of an integer to identify the country.
thus i would need to find a way validating this XML file, move the record of Queen Victoria to another file to be fixed and to allow, the record for John Smith to be sent out.
if you guys could post some links to where i can find further information on this type of processing, i would be most grateful.
Many thanks,
Nicolas
using an example from:
[http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_data/xml/article.php/c6737]
XSD
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="address">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:element name="street" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:element name="city"type="xs:string"/>
*<xs:element name="country"type="xs:integer"/>*
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>XML
<address>
<name>John Smith</name>
<street>109 Abbey Close</street>
<city>Hayes</city>
<country>98</country>
</address>
<address>
<name>Queen Victoria</name>
<street>1 Regent Street</street>
<city>London</city>
<country>UK</country>
</address>Edited by: www.jegue.net on Jan 13, 2009 9:48 AM
Edited by: www.jegue.net on Jan 13, 2009 9:49 AM

Answer 1

i would need to find a way validating this XML file, move the record of Queen Victoria to another file to be fixed and to allow, the record for John Smith to be sent out.I don't think any automated tool or API available with such features. You should achieve this by some tricky logic/code.