Utlimately I want to be able to parse an xml STRING with an xsd STRING but this is the best I could do: parsing an xml FILE with an xsd FILE. I basically reworked a console application example in the MSDN help file into a nicer looking ASP.NET Web form example. It tells you if your file is not well-formed and then if it is not valid it lists out the specific reason (like in XMLSpy), quite helpful to find an error in a large XML file as it returns the line number on which the error occurred as well as the tag name. This was done in Visual Studio .NET so to get it to work you will have to change the code around to whatever you want to do. Notice that you have to have the namespace in the root element of the XML file.
