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XSLT works for this kind of thing and its pretty easy, too. Say the file data.xml is expected to contain the elements cow and chicken but it doesn't: C:\XML\Examples>cat data.xml <data> <pig/> <chicken/> <horse/> </data> Here's an XSLT stylesheet that checks for the the cow and chicken elements in data.xml: C:\XML\Examples>cat check.xsl <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="data"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="not(chicken)"> <xsl:message>chicken element not found</xsl:message> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="not(cow)"> <xsl:message>cow element not found</xsl:message> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:message>All needed elements found</xsl:message> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> If data.xml contains both cow and chicken, you'll get a report saying that all the needed elements are found. If not, you get a complaint: C:\XML\Examples>saxon data.xml check.xsl cow element not found Hope this works for you. Mike Noah Genner wrote: > Hello All, > I'm new to all this and I'm looking for some direction. > I need to be able to check an XML document for some specific elements, and if > possible produce a little report on which ones are missing. The document has > already been validated against a dtd/schema that contains approximately 270 > elements, but I need to check that the ~40 I need are present. If they aren't > present I want to produce a little report that says which elements are not present. > Can I do this with XSLT, or is there an easier way to do this? > > Thanks, >
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