find un-closed tags in XML files

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,

I am trying to validate XMLs from a folder:

Input Directory having multiple XML files:

File1.xml

<Root>
  <Parent>
     <Child Name="One">
        <Foo>...</Foo>
        <Bar>...</Bar>
        <Baz>...</Baz>
     </Child>
     <Child Name="Two">
        <Foo>...</Foo>
        <Bar>...</Bar>

File2.xml

<Root>
  <Parent>
     <Child Name="One">
        <Foo>...</Foo>
        <Bar>...</Bar>
        <Baz>...</Baz>
     </Child>
     <Child Name="Two">
        <Foo>...
        <Bar>...</Bar>
     </Child>
  </Parent>
</Root>

File3.xml

<Root>
  <Parent>
     <Child Name="One">
        <Foo>...</Foo>
        <Bar>...</Bar>
        <Baz>...</Baz>
     </Child>
     <Child Name="Two">
        <Foo>...</Foo>
        <Bar>...</Bar>
     </Child>
  </Parent>
</Root>

My output should be:
File1.xml & File2.xml doesn't having proper closed tags these files have to store in Folder1

File3.xml having proper closed tags so these file has to be stored in Folder2

I don't know how to start with.. could you please help in this.

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Ulf

2

Before we start dreaming up awk or sed solutions for your request, you should try to find xml specific tools doing exactly this for you - and I'm sure there will be abundant thereof, on these forums, or found by google.

3

Actually what you are trying to do is check that your XML is "well-formed". Well-formed and valid are two completely different concepts in XML. A document, i.e. file containing your XML, can be well-formed but not valid. However if it is a valid document, by definition it must be well-formed.

Do an Internet search for "check XML well-formedness" and you should find some utilities that will do what you want. Such tools include xmlproc and xmlproc_val.

4

Thanks all I will check for it.