Hi,

We're receiving multiple XML files from a customer on a daily basis, and we know for a fact, that their XML export utility doesn't encode attribute values correctly, sometimes resulting in invalid XML files.

This of course makes FME break down, but this typically happens only after hours of converting the valid parts of the XML file.

It would be a nice feature - and very simple to add, I think - to (optionally) validate the basic XML syntax _before_ any conversion is attempted. This really ought to be mandatory, but might also be an optional setting.

It is not validation wrt one or more schemas I'm talking about, just a bare-boned XML file syntax check.

Cheers

Lars I.