Manual Validation Actions

You can choose to validate documents at any time by using the manual validation actions that are available in Oxygen XML Author Eclipse plugin.

Tip: Status information generated by certain operations (such as validation) are fed into the Console view. This could be helpful for troubleshooting problems encountered during such operations. To open this view, select Window > Show View > Console.

Manual Validation Actions

To manually validate the currently edited document, use one of the following actions:

Validate

Available from the Validation drop-down menu on the toolbar, the XML menu, or from the Validate submenu when invoking the contextual menu in the Project Explorer view.

An error list is presented in the message panel at the bottom of the editor. Markup of the current document is checked to conform with the specified DTD, XML Schema, or Relax NG schema rules. This action also re-parses the XML Catalogs and resets the schema used for content completion.

Validate (cached)

Available from the Validation drop-down menu on the toolbar or the XML menu.

This action caches the schema, allowing it to be reused for the next validation. Markup of the current document is checked to conform with the specified DTD, XML Schema, or Relax NG schema rules.

Note: Automatic validation also caches the associated schema.

Validate with

Available from the Validation drop-down menu on the toolbar, (or XML menu).

This action opens a dialog box that allows you to specify a schema for validating the current document.

You can use this action to validate the current document using a schema of your choice (XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG, NVDL, Schematron schema), other than the associated one. An error list is presented in the message panel at the bottom of the editor. Markup of current document is checked to conform with the specified schema rules.

Validate with Schema

Available from the Validate submenu when invoking contextual menu in the Project Explorer view.

This action opens a dialog box that allows you to specify a schema for validating all selected files.

Other Validation Options

To quickly open the schema used for validating the current document, select the Open Associated Schema action from the toolbar (or XML menu).

To clear the error markers added to the Problems view in the last validation, select Clear Validation Markers from the Validate submenu when invoking the contextual menu in the Project Explorer view.

Tip: If a large number of validation errors are detected and the validation process takes too long, you can limit the maximum number of reported errors in the Document Checking preferences page.