It's not mandatory but you can always create a schema definition file known as a XSD file to validate the XML file against a particular schema. By doing so, this enforces the XML to meet certain ...

WE show you how to validate XML files against XSD (XML Schema Definition) in Notepad++ to find and correct the errors in your documents.

We have an XSD with encoding set to one value and we can validate XML files with different encodings successfully (our XSD has encoding utf-8 and various input XML files have utf-8, windows-1252 ...