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 XML Author 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:
Clicking on a marker will highlight the corresponding text area in the editor. The error message is displayed both in the tool tip and in the error area on the bottom of the editor panel.
The Document checking user preferences are easily accessible from the button displayed at the beginning of the error message on the bottom of the editor panel.
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 XML Author
user preferences.
Status messages from every validation action are logged into the Information view.