Validation Actions in the User Interface

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

• Select the Validate (Alt + Shift + V, V) action from the XML menu, from the Validation toolbar drop-down menu, or from the Validate submenu when invoking the contextual menu in the Navigator view. An error list is presented in the message panel. Markup of 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.
• Select the Validate (cached) action from the XML menu or from the Validation toolbar drop-down 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.
• Select the Validate with action from the XML menu, from the Validation toolbar drop-down menu, or from the Validate submenu when invoking the contextual menu in the Navigator view. 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. Markup of current document is checked to conform with the specified schema rules.
• Select Validate with Schema from the Validate submenu when invoking contextual menu in the Navigator view to choose a schema and validate all selected files with it.

To open the schema used for validating the current document, select the Open Associated Schema action from the 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 Navigator view .