# tDTDValidator

Helps at controlling data and structure quality of the file to be processed

Validates the XML input file against a DTD file and sends the validation log to the defined output.

For more technologies supported by Talend, see [Talend components](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/components/xml-validation).

### In this section

* [tDTDValidator Standard properties](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/xml-validation/tdtdvalidator-standard-properties)

**Related concepts**

[Validating XML files](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/xml-validation/tdtdvalidator-tfilelist-tmap-tfileoutputdelimited-validating-xml-files-this)