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I work on a project where we have xml files for code generation and we use gradle to build it.

I'm novice in gradle, but I heard that there are a lot of plugins that could help with routine tasks and I wonder if there are some plugins for xml simple validation (missing quotes and brackets).

I would like to get name of file and list of missings as result.

PS Tried to search in google, but couldn't find something like that.

UPD If in not so distant future full validation of xml file (tags, parameters) would be required, what should I do?

It's pretty simple to write your own

class XmlValidate extends DefaultTask 
 @InputFiles
 private FileCollection xmlFiles

 @InputFile
 File xsd

 void xml(Object files) 
 FileCollection fc = project.files(files)
 this.xmlFiles = this.xmlFiles == null ? fc : this.xmlFiles.add(fc)
 

 @TaskAction
 public void validateXml() 
 DocumentBuilder parser = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder()
 Validator validator = null
 if (xsd != null) 
 SchemaFactory factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI)
 Schema schema = factory.newSchema(new StreamSource(xsd))
 validator = schema.newValidator()
 
 Set<File> failures = as Set
 xmlFiles.forEach 
 Document document = null
 try 
 document = parser.parse(it)
 catch (Exception e) 
 logger.error("Error parsing $it", e) 
 failures << it
 
 if (document && validator) 
 try 
 validator.validate(new DOMSource(document))
 catch (Exception e) 
 logger.error("Error validating $it", e) 
 failures << it
 
 
 
 if (failures) throw new BuildException("xml validation failures $failures") 
 

Usage in build.gradle

task validateXml(type: XmlValidate) 
 xml ['foo.xml', 'bar.xml']
 xml fileTree(dir: 'src/main/resources/baz', include: '*.xml')
 xsd = file('path/to.xsd')