XML Nanny 3.0b1

XML Nanny is the perfect tool for the web author who cares!
XML Nanny is a Cocoa port of my desktop XML Well-Formedness/Validity checker application, GooeySAX. Whereas GooeySAX was written in Java with a Swing interface, XML Nanny is pure Objective-C and Cocoa (with a little bit of JavaScript and AppleScript thrown in for sass). The application is targeted at developers who need to:
• Check the well-formedness or validity of XHTML documents locally, or over the network, or behind a local firewall (which would prevent the use of say, the W3Cs web-based XHTML validation service.
• Check the well-formedness or validity of XML config files. For example, Im constanly using GooeySAX to check the validity of my web.xml and faces-config.xml servlet and JavaServer Faces config files.
Basically, anytime you need to check an XML doc for well-formedness or validity (which is quite a lot these days), something like XML Nanny comes in very handy.
Enhancements:
- Now a Universal Binary.
- 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 cant 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 Nannys 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-Contstraint Check setting for XSD parsing.
- Change result text size using command-+ and command-minus.