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      <h1>Running validation from Ant</h1>
      <p>It is possible to use the Saxon schema validator using the standard Ant tasks <code>xmlvalidate</code>
    and <code>schemavalidate</code>. To use Saxon rather than Xerces as the validation engine, specify the attribute
    <code>classname="com.saxonica.jaxp.ValidatingReader"</code>, and make sure Saxon-EE is on the classpath.</p>
      <p>The schema to be used for validation can be specified using the <code>xsi:schemaLocation</code> and
        <code>xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation</code> attributes in the instance document, or (in the case of the
        <code>schemavalidate</code> task) using the <code>schemavalidate/schema</code> child element or the
        <code>schemavalidate/@noNamespaceFile</code> or  <code>schemavalidate/@noNamespaceURL</code> attributes.</p>
      <p>The attributes <code>lenient</code> and <code>fullchecking</code> have no effect.</p>
      <p>The child element <code>schemavalidate/attribute</code> can be used to set options. Any option defined by
    the constants in class <code>net.sf.saxon.FeatureKeys</code> can be specified, provided the required value
    is expressible as a string (for boolean values, use "true" and "false"). Saxon also recognizes some property
    names defined by the Apache Xerces product, for compatibility.</p>
      <p>Properties of particular interest include the following:</p>
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               <p>http://saxon.sf.net/feature/licenseFileLocation</p>
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            <td content="para">
               <p>The filename where the Saxon-EE license file is found</p>
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               <p>http://saxon.sf.net/feature/schemaURIResolverClass</p>
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               <p>Class used to resolve URIs of schema documents</p>
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               <p>http://saxon.sf.net/feature/schema-validation-mode</p>
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               <code>strict</code> or <code>lax</code>: determines
        whether validation fails if no element declaration can be found for the top-level element.</p>
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               <p>http://saxon.sf.net/feature/standardErrorOutputFile</p>
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               <p>Log file to capture validation errors</p>
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               <p>http://saxon.sf.net/feature/xsd-version</p>
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               <code>1.0</code> or <code>1.1</code> depending on the version
        of the XML Schema (XSD) Recommendation to be supported. Default is <code>1.0</code>
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