Using Google Chrome as an XML Syntax Checker

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∟Using Google Chrome as an XML Syntax Checker

This section provides a tutorial example on how to use Google Chrome as an XML file syntax checker. If there are syntax errors in an XML file, Chrome will stop displaying the XML file at the first error location.

Google Chrome can also be used as an XML syntax checker.

Look at the following XML file, incorrect.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- incorrect.xml
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-->
<dictionary>
 <word>
  <update date="2014-12-23"/>
  <name is_acronym="true">XML</Name>
  <description>eXtensible Markup Language</description>
 </word>
 <word>
  <update date="2014-12-23"/>
  <name is_acronym="true">POP</name>
  <definition default>Post Office Protocol</definition>
  <definition>Point Of Purchase</definition>
</dictionary>

Do you know how many syntax errors are in this XML file?

If you open incorrect.xml with Chrome, you will see the following:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 8 at column 30: Opening and ending tag mismatch:
name line 0 and Name

Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

This is almost perfect.

It tells you what is the error: "Opening and ending tag mismatch: name line 0 and Name". Remember element tags are case sensitive.
It also tries to tell you where is the error: "line 8 at column 30".
But it only tells the first error. To see the other errors you must correct the first one, and re-open the file again in Chrome.