When EDI documents arrive in BizTalk, they are validated against the party settings and the schema associated with the document type received.  If the document cannot be validated, the specific error will be caught in BizTalk, and made available through the suspended messages reporting area and in the Windows Event log.  An example of an error is shown in the following screen shot – this states that the error is in position 32.  This position corresponds to the actual XML segment location in the corresponding XML document (all EDI documents are handled as XML within BizTalk.

Here is the corresponding XML:

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