The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
To validate an OVAL or XCCDF file against its schema, use the oscap validate command and examine the exit code, for example:
#oscap oval validate com.oracle.elsa-2017.xml\&& echo "ok" || echo "exit code = $? not ok"ok #oscap xccdf validate /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-rhel6-xccdf.xml\&& echo "ok" || echo "exit code = $? not ok"ok
An exit code of 0 indicates that the file is valid, 1 indicates an error prevented validation, and 2 indicates that the file is invalid. Error messages are written to the standard error output.