-- CWRC XML Validator API

RESTful API service for XML validation against a schema

-- Source Code:

https://github.com/cwrc/cwrc-validator

-- Install

• compile: mvn compile
• build distribution: mvn war:war
• deploy in an Apache Tomcat instance (e.g. rename war file, if wanted, and copy to $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps directory)

-- Test/help page:

• [tomcat URL]/[webapp directory]/index.html

-- API endpoint:

• [tomcat URL]/[webapp directory]/validate.html

• POST request following parameters

  • sch: schema url (e.g., http://cwrc.ca/schemas/tei_all.rng)
  • type: type of schema (e.g, RNG_XML - Relax-NG)
  • content: {XML document contents}

• note: without the proper API call parameters this url will return a "request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect" HTTP 400 error

-- Note: Compatibility: if the .war file is exploded in Tomcat 1.6 with java 1.8.91 or higher you may receive the following error: "org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: An error occurred at line: 1 in the generated java file. The type java.io.ObjectInputStream cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files"

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Changelog

• 2021-04-23: update guava