Project roadmap

This document outlines planned features and/or ideas for the future development of the robotframework-xmlvalidator library.

This roadmap is aspirational and may evolve based on user feedback input and practical constraints.

In progress / near-term

Support for separate error facets for malformed XML errors vs. XSD violation errors.
XSD 1.1 support using XMLSchema 1.1 features (e.g., assertions, conditional types).
Explicit validation of XSD schemas using W3C meta-schema.
Flexible handling of wildcard elements (<xs:any>), with support for:
- strict: must be validatable
- lax: validate if possible
- skip: accept without validation
Support for additional schema types (e.g., RelaxNG, Schematron).
Optional CLI runner for validation outside of Robot Framework.
Export error details to more formats (e.g. JSON, XML).
Enbed error collection as HTML tables in the log file (inline validation summaries).
Built-in diffs between schema versions.
GUI frontend for non-technical users.

Last updated: 2025-06-13

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