Presenting Validation Errors in Text Mode

A line with a validation error or warning will be marked in the editor panel by underlining the error region with a red color. Also a red sign will mark the position in the document of that line on the right side ruler of the editor panel. The same will happen for a validation warning, but the color will be yellow instead of red. Hovering over a validation error presents a tooltip message with more details about the error and possible quick fixes (if available for that error or warning).

The ruler on the right side of the document is designed to display the errors and warnings found during the validation process and also to help you to locate them more easily. The ruler contains the following areas:

• Top area that contains a success validation indicator that will turn green if the validation succeeded, or red otherwise.

  A more detailed report of the errors is displayed in the tooltip of the validation indicator. If there are multiple errors, only the first three of them will be presented in the tooltip.

• Middle area where the error markers are depicted in red (with a darker color tone for the current selected one). To limit the number of markers shown open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor > Document checking > Maximum number of problems reported per document.

  Clicking a marker will highlight the corresponding text area in the editor. The error message is displayed both in the tool tip and in the error area on the bottom of the editor panel.

  The Document checking user preferences are easily accessible from the button displayed at the beginning of the error message on the bottom of the editor panel.

• Bottom area containing two navigation arrows that will go to the next or to the previous error and a button for clearing all the error markers from the ruler. The same actions can be triggered from menu Document > Automatic validation > Next Error Ctrl Period (Meta Period on OS X) and Document > Automatic validation > Previous Error Ctrl Comma (Meta Comma on OS X).

The validation status area is the line at the bottom of the editor panel that presents the message of the current validation error selected on the right side ruler. Clicking the Document checking options button opens the document checking page in Oxygen XML Editor user preferences.

Status messages from every validation action are logged into the Information view.

If you want to see all the validation error messages grouped in a view you should use the Validate action from the Document > Validate menu or from the Validation toolbar drop-down menu. This action collects all error messages in the Errors view.