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Sample VAD File

You can download a sample VAD file, which is both valid and well formed. To test its its validity, follow these steps:

  1. Download the sample VAD file.
  2. Go to the online XML validator
  3. Click "Browse" and locate the XML file you downloaded
  4. Click "Validate"
  5. A successful validation looks like this (notice error="0"):
    NIST MPEG-7 Validation Result ... 
    <Mpeg7Validation file="sampleCDP.XML">
  <Total warning="0" error="0" fatal="0"/>

  <Processed element="36" attribute="20" time="2439ms"/>
</Mpeg7Validation>
  6. By way of example, we also have two non-valid XML samples:
    Bad Sample 1
    Bad Sample 2
  7. You can also use XML editing applications to validate the XML. Altova has recently released a free home version of their great software xmlspy.