def validateFromString(cls,xmlstring,target):
"""
Fully validates the corpus against a specific format.
@param xmlstring: XML containing the corpus
@type xmlstring: string
@param target: target format
@type target: string
@return: validity of the corpus
@rtype: boolean
"""
corpus = Corpus()
if corpus.readFromString(xmlstring):
return( Validator.validate(corpus,target) )
else:
return(False)
def validateFromFile(cls,infile,target):
"""
Fully validates the corpus against a specific format.
@param infile: file containing the corpus
@type infile: file name or open file
@param target: target format
@type target: string
@return: validity of the corpus
@rtype: boolean
"""
corpus = Corpus()
if corpus.readFromFile(infile):
return( Validator.validate(corpus,target) )
else:
return(False)
def validateFromET(cls,root,target):
"""
Fully validates the corpus against a specific format.
@param root: the root node of the corpus
@type root: cElementTree.Element
@param target: target format
@type target: string
@return: validity of the corpus
@rtype: boolean
"""
corpus = Corpus()
if corpus.readFromET(root):
return( Validator.validate(corpus,target) )
else:
return(False)
