[ome-users] OME validator

[Jason Swedlow]

Hi Jose-

Also, forwarding this to the ome lists.

Thanks for this.  I suspect the validator will be very helpful.   
Great stuff.

Cheers,

Jason

On 21 Feb 2007, at 16:49, Jose Viña wrote:

> Dear Dr. Swedlow,
>
> I've quickly implemented an online OME file validator, currently
> located in http://support.svi.nl/wiki/OmeValidator.
>
> There an user can upload a file (either .OME or .XML) to be compared
> with the OME-XML schema that I downloaded from
> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/XMLschemas/OME/FC/ome.xsd and obtain
> some feedback on its format. The file size is limited by now to about
> 5 MB. I guess this would be OK, because to check the goodness of an
> OME writer there is no need to include a large dataset in the test
> files.
>
> This form is based on a couple of fast programming tricks, but I think
> it can work good enough (I attached to this email three different
> files that I've been using for testing).
>
> The most important thing now is to stablish a final OME schema, of  
> course.
>
> By the way, my validator uses a local copy of the schema, it won't
> update it automatically when it is changed in the openmicroscopy.org
> server. That is the next step, by now I've been just testing.
>
> I hope this can be useful. It would be for us, to test the validity of
> the files we write with Huygens.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> jose.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr. Jose Viña                                +31 35 642 1626
> Scientific Volume Imaging BV               http://www.svi.nl
> Laapersveld, 63. 1213 VB Hilversum           The Netherlands
> <SampleBad.ome>
> <SampleVeryBad.xml>
> <SampleGood.xml>


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