Specifies whether the schemas in a schema collection are valid (conforms to the syntactic rules of XML and the rules for a specified vocabulary; a standard for structuring XML).
Note
References to DTDs from custom XML parts are not supported. DTD references in custom XML parts will not resolve, and custom XML parts containing DTD references generate an exception when an attempt is made to save the file's content to a flat XML file.

Syntax

expression.Validate

expression An expression that returns a CustomXMLSchemaCollection object.

Return Value
Boolean

Remarks

In addition to determining whether the schemas are valid, this method also traverses the include statements for each schema in the collection and adds the referenced schemas to the source schema.

Example

The following example validates the schema collection and returns the Boolean results to the calling procedure.

Visual Basic for Applications 
Function ValidateSchemas(objSourceCustomXMLSchemaCollection As CustomXMLSchemaCollection) Dim boolValid As Boolean ' Validates the schemas in a schema collection. boolValid = objSourceCustomXMLSchemaCollection.Validate ValidateSchemas = boolValid End Function

See also: