validate

Validate an XML document for conformance against the supported schemas (common formats) and controlled vocabularies.

[Visual Basic]

Public Sub validate(document As String)

[C#]

public void validate(string document);

Parameters

document
An XML document

Return Value

The validate method does not return any value. However, if the method fails, SOAP exception will be thrown.

SOAP Request

The following is a sample SOAP request. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.

POST /service/3.0/service.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: bch.biodiv.org
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://bch.biodiv.org/service/3.0/validate"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

   <soap:Body>

      <validate xmlns="http://bch.biodiv.org/service/3.0">

         <document>string</document>

      </validate>

   </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

SOAP Response

The following is a sample SOAP response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

   <soap:Body>

      <validateResponse xmlns="http://bch.biodiv.org/service/3.0" />

   </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Relevant Links

To test the validate method using the HTTP POST protocol.

Update on 2005-10-28

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