Validate Property

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Validates the XML DOM tree using the defined DTD.

Syntax

object.Validate

The object placeholder represents an XMLDOMParser object.

Remarks

This method will use an already loaded DTD stored in the DTD and RootElement properties to validate the XML document that has been parsed into the DOM tree.

Background

The validate method is automatically executed when an XML document is parsed using the ParseString or ParseWeb method and the ValidationRule property is set appropriately. It works by executing individual ValidateNode methods on every node in the DOM tree that is a tag. If there are any problems with the validation a vbXML_ERROR_INVALIDXML error will be thrown.