How to Create a Validation Scenario

To open the Configure Validation Scenario dialog, go to Document > Validate > Configure Validation Scenario . You can also open this dialog from the Validate toolbar.

The following dialog is displayed. It contains the following types of scenarios:

Predefined scenarios are organized in categories depending on the type of file they apply to. You can identify Predefined scenarios by a yellow key icon that marks them as read-only. If the predefined scenario is the default scenario of the framework, its name is written in bold font. If you try to edit one of these scenarios, Oxygen XML Editor creates a customizable duplicate;
User defined scenarios are organized under a single category, but you can use the drop-down option box to filter them by the type of file they validate;
Note: The default validation scenarios are not displayed in the scenarios list. If the current file has no associated scenarios, the preview area displays a message to let you know that you can apply the default validation.

Configure Validation Scenario

Press the New button to add a new scenario.

Press the Add button to add a new validation unit with default settings.

The dialog that lists all validation units of the scenario is opened.

Add / Edit a Validation Unit

The table holds the following information:

Storage - allows you to create a scenario at project level, or as global;
URL of the file to validate - the URL of the main module which includes the current module. It is also the entry module of the validation process when the current one is validated;
File type - the type of the document validated in the current validation unit. Oxygen XML Editor automatically selects the file type depending on the value of the URL of the file to validate field;
Validation engine - one of the engines available in Oxygen XML Editor for validation of the type of document to which the current module belongs. Default engine is the default setting and means that the default engine executes the validation. This engine is set in Preferences pages for the type of the current document (XML document, XML Schema, XSLT stylesheet, XQuery file, and others) instead of a validation scenario;
Automatic validation - if this option is checked, then the validation operation defined by this row of the table is applied also by the automatic validation feature. If the Automatic validation feature is disabled in Preferences then this option does not take effect as the Preference setting has higher priority;
Schema - active when you set the File type to XML Document;
Settings - contains an action that allows you to set a schema, when validating XML documents, or a list of extensions when validating XSL or XQuery documents.

Edit the URL of the main validation module.

Specify the URL of the main module:

browsing for a local, remote, or archived file;
using an editor variable or a custom editor variable, available in the following pop-up menu, opened after pressing the button:

Insert an Editor Variable

Select the type of the validated document.

Note that it determines the list of possible validation engines.

Select the validation engine.

Select the Automatic validation option if you want to validate the current unit when automatic validation feature is turned on in Preferences.

Choose what schema is used during validation: the one detected after parsing the document or a custom one.