diff --git a/lib/document.js b/lib/document.js
index 0c063906..d249c049 100644
--- a/lib/document.js
+++ b/lib/document.js
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ Document.prototype.encoding = function(encoding) {
     return this._encoding(encoding);
 }
 
+/// @return whether the XmlDocument is valid
+Document.prototype.validate = function(xsd) {
+    return this._validate(xsd);
+}
+
 module.exports = Document;
 
 /// parse a string into a html document
diff --git a/src/xml_document.cc b/src/xml_document.cc
index 9c85e7c8..64a60ccd 100644
--- a/src/xml_document.cc
+++ b/src/xml_document.cc
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include <node.h>
 
 #include <libxml/HTMLparser.h>
+#include <libxml/xmlschemas.h>
 
 #include "xml_document.h"
 #include "xml_element.h"
@@ -196,6 +197,40 @@ XmlDocument::FromXmlString(const v8::Arguments& args)
     return scope.Close(doc_handle);
 }
 
+v8::Handle<v8::Value>
+XmlDocument::Validate(const v8::Arguments& args)
+{
+    v8::HandleScope scope;
+
+    v8::Local<v8::Array> errors = v8::Array::New();
+    xmlResetLastError();
+    xmlSetStructuredErrorFunc(reinterpret_cast<void *>(*errors),
+            XmlSyntaxError::PushToArray);
+
+    XmlDocument* document = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<XmlDocument>(args.Holder());
+    XmlDocument* documentSchema = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<XmlDocument>(args[0]->ToObject());
+
+    xmlSchemaParserCtxtPtr parser_ctxt = xmlSchemaNewDocParserCtxt(documentSchema->xml_obj);
+    if (parser_ctxt == NULL) {
+        return v8::ThrowException(v8::Exception::Error(
+            v8::String::New("Could not create context for schema parser")));
+    }
+    xmlSchemaPtr schema = xmlSchemaParse(parser_ctxt);
+    if (schema == NULL) {
+        return v8::ThrowException(v8::Exception::Error(
+            v8::String::New("Invalid XSD schema")));
+    }
+    xmlSchemaValidCtxtPtr valid_ctxt = xmlSchemaNewValidCtxt(schema);
+    if (valid_ctxt == NULL) {
+        return v8::ThrowException(v8::Exception::Error(
+            v8::String::New("Unable to create a validation context for the schema")));
+    }
+    bool valid = xmlSchemaValidateDoc(valid_ctxt, document->xml_obj) == 0;
+
+    return scope.Close(v8::Boolean::New(valid));
+}
+
+
 /// this is a blank object with prototype methods
 /// not exposed to the user and not called from js
 v8::Handle<v8::Value>
@@ -252,6 +287,10 @@ XmlDocument::Initialize(v8::Handle<v8::Object> target)
             "_toString",
             XmlDocument::ToString);
 
+    NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD(constructor_template,
+            "_validate",
+            XmlDocument::Validate);
+
     NODE_SET_METHOD(target, "fromXmlString", XmlDocument::FromXmlString);
     NODE_SET_METHOD(target, "fromHtmlString", XmlDocument::FromHtmlString);
 
diff --git a/src/xml_document.h b/src/xml_document.h
index ab513380..eeb0c4cf 100644
--- a/src/xml_document.h
+++ b/src/xml_document.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ class XmlDocument : public node::ObjectWrap {
     static v8::Handle<v8::Value> Doc(const v8::Arguments& args);
     static v8::Handle<v8::Value> Errors(const v8::Arguments& args);
     static v8::Handle<v8::Value> ToString(const v8::Arguments& args);
+    static v8::Handle<v8::Value> Validate(const v8::Arguments& args);
 };
 
 }  // namespace libxmljs
diff --git a/test/document.js b/test/document.js
index d993e7e9..81d413a5 100644
--- a/test/document.js
+++ b/test/document.js
@@ -138,3 +138,18 @@ module.exports.cloned_node = function(assert) {
     assert.equal(doc1_string, doc2.toString()); //doc2 should be the same as doc1 str
     assert.done();
 };
+
+module.exports.validate = function(assert) {
+    var xsd = '<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><xs:element name="comment" type="xs:string"/></xs:schema>';
+    var xml_valid = '<?xml version="1.0"?><comment>A comment</comment>';
+    var xml_invalid = '<?xml version="1.0"?><commentt>A comment</commentt>';
+    
+    var xsdDoc = libxml.parseXmlString(xsd);
+    var xmlDocValid = libxml.parseXmlString(xml_valid);
+    var xmlDocInvalid = libxml.parseXmlString(xml_invalid);
+    
+    assert.equal(xmlDocValid.validate(xsdDoc), true);
+    assert.equal(xmlDocInvalid.validate(xsdDoc), false);
+
+    assert.done();
+}