XML Nanny

XML Nanny is a graphical tool that wraps an underlying XML parser (Apple's NSXMLParser, to be exact) in a Cocoa interface. Use XML Nanny to parse XML documents on your local across the network to determine their Well-Formedness.

Support for validation against a DTD or W3C XML Schema coming very soon!

XML Nanny is the perfect tool for the web author who cares! Checking your XHTML document's well-formedness either remotely is a snap, and XML Nanny's detailed error messages let you know about those embarrassing validation errors immediately.

But there's more... each well-formedness error reported in the XML Nanny result list is also a special hyperlink. Click any one of the error messages, and your document will be opened in Safari, with the general region of the validation error highlighted with a large red CSS border. (This feature relies on HTML id attributes being sprinkled throughout your document, so if you don't have many id attributes in your document, this feature may not work very well.)

Version 0.8 of XML Nanny is currently available as a pre-release preview build. This version lacks polish and some important features, most notably the ability to validate your XML documents. These enhancements will be made for the 1.0 release.

XML Nanny is easy to use... select an XML document for parsing by typing a URL into XML Nanny's location bar.

Click the Parse button and watch the results appear.

Click any of the error messages that appear to see the document in Safari with the specific error highlighted in red.

XML Nanny is developed by Todd Ditchendorf. Have feedback? Email me.