Validation Actions in the User Interface

Use one of the actions for validating the currently edited document:

• Go to Document > Validate > Validate Document (Ctrl+Shift+V) 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 Document > Validate > Validate (cached) 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 Document > Validate > Validate with (Ctrl+Shift+H) 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. The Validate with action does not work for files loaded through an Oxygen XML Editor custom protocol plugin developed independently and added to Oxygen XML Editor after installation.
• Go to Document > Schema > Open External Schema or click the Open External Schema button from the Document toolbar to open the schema used for validating the current document in a new editor.
• Select submenu Validate Selection > Validate in the contextual menu of Project panel, to validate all selected files with their declared schemas.
• Select Validate Selection with Schema ... > Validate With ... from the contextual menu of the Project panel, to choose a schema and validate all selected files with it.
• Select the submenu Validate > Configure Validation Scenario ... of the contextual menu of Project panel, to configure and apply a validation scenario in one action to all the selected files in the Project panel, .

The Validation options button available on the Validate toolbar allows quick access to the validation options of the built-in validator in the Oxygen XML Editor user preferences page.

Also you can select several files in the Project panel 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 the Project view.

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.