✘ dev@desktop5  ~/swh-environment/swh-deposit   validate-metadata ●  pip3 show xmlschema Name: xmlschema Version: 1.9.2 Summary: An XML Schema validator and decoder Home-page: https://github.com/sissaschool/xmlschema Author: Davide Brunato Author-email: brunato@sissa.it License: MIT Location: /home/dev/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages Requires: elementpath Required-by: dev@desktop5  ~/swh-environment/swh-deposit   validate-metadata ●  python3 Python 3.9.2 (default, Feb 28 2021, 17:03:44) [GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import xmlschema >>> schema = xmlschema.XMLSchema11('''''') >>> schema.validate('''123 foo bar''') >>> schema.to_dict('''123 foo bar''') '123 foo bar'