To validate an XML document against a Schematron schema, select the 
Validate action from the
Validation toolbar drop-down menu, or the XML menu, or
from the Validate menu when invoking the contextual menu in the
Navigator view.
If you would like to add a persistence association between your Schematron rules and the
current edited XML document, use the 
Associate Schema action from the menu or the Document toolbar. A custom processing
instruction is added into the document and the validation process will take into account the
Schematron rules:
PI Added by the Associate Schema Action
<?xml-model href="percent.sch" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
The possible errors that might occur during the validation process are presented in the Problems tab at the bottom area of the Oxygen XML Developer plugin window. Each error is flagged with a severity level that can be one of warning, error, fatal or info.
To set a severity level, Oxygen XML Developer plugin looks for the following information:
- The role attribute, which can have one of the following values:
- warn or warning, to set the severity level to warning
- error, to set the severity level to error
- fatal, to set the severity level to fatal
- info or information, to set the severity level to info
- The start of the message, after trimming leading white-spaces. Oxygen XML Developer plugin
looks to match the following exact string of characters (case sensitive):
- Warning:, to set the severity level to warning
- Error:, to set the severity level to error
- Fatal:, to set the severity level to fatal
- Info:, to set the severity level to infoNote: Displayed message does not contain the matched prefix.
- If none of the previous rules match, Oxygen XML Developer plugin sets the severity level to error.
