To configure the options for Custom Validation Engines, open the Preferences dialog box and go to .
If you want to add a new custom validation tool or edit the properties of an exiting one you can use the Custom Validator dialog displayed by pressing the New button or the Edit button.
The configurable parameters of a custom validator are as follows:
- Name - Name of the custom validation engine that will be displayed
in the
Validation toolbar drop-down list. - Executable path - Path to the executable file of the custom validation tool. You can insert here editor variables like ${home}, ${pd}, ${oxygenInstallDir}, etc.
- Working directory - The working directory of the custom validation tool.
- Associated editors - The editors which can perform validation with the external tool: the XML editor, the XSL editor, the XSD editor, etc.
- Command line arguments for detected schemas - Command line
arguments used in the commands that validate the current edited file against different types
of schema: W3C XML Schema, Relax NG full syntax, Relax NG compact syntax, NVDL, Schematron,
DTD, etc.. The arguments can include any custom switch (like -rng) and the
following editor variables:
- ${cf} - Current file as file path, that is the absolute file path of the current edited document.
- ${currentFileURL} - Current file as URL, that is the absolute file path of the current edited document represented as URL.
- ${ds} - The path of the detected schema as a local file path for the current validated XML document.
- ${dsu} - The path of the detected schema as an URL for the current validated XML document.