Validation and Error Presenting

Automatic validation as well as validate on request operations are available while editing documents in the Author editor. A detailed description of the document validation process and its configuration is described in section Validating Documents.

Error presenting in Oxygen Author editor

A fragment with a validation error or warning will be marked by underlining the error region with a red color. The same will happen for a validation warning, only the color will be yellow instead of red.

The ruler on the right of the document is designed to display the errors found during the validation process and also to help the user to locate them more easily. The ruler contains the following areas:

The validation status area is the line at the bottom of the editor panel that presents the message of the current validation error. Clicking on opens the Document checking page in Oxygen user preferences.

Status messages from every validation action are logged into the Information view.