Use one of the actions for validating the currently edited document:
- Go to or click the
Validate button from the Validate toolbar. An error
list is presented in the message panel. Mark-up 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. - Go to or click the
Validate
(cached) button from the Validate toolbar. This action
caches the schema, allowing it to be reused for the next validation. Mark-up 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. - Go to or click the
Validate with button from the Validate toolbar. 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. Mark-up of current document is checked to conform
with the specified schema rules. - Select submenu in the contextual menu of Navigator or Package Explorer view, to validate all selected files with their declared schemas.
- Select from the contextual menu of the Navigator or Package Explorer view, to choose a schema and validate all selected files with it.
- Go to or click the
Clear
Validation Markers button to clear the error markers added to the
Problems view at the last validation of the current edited
document. - Select the submenu of the contextual menu of Navigator or Package Explorer view, to configure and apply a validation scenario in one action to all the selected files in the Navigator or Package Explorer view.
Also you can select several files in the views Package Explorer or Navigator and validate them with one click by selecting the action Validate selection, the action Validate selection with Schema ... or the action Configure Validation Scenario ... available from the contextual menu of that view, the submenu Batch Validate.
In case too many validation errors are detected and the validation process takes too long, you can limit the maximum number of reported errors from the Preferences page.
