Validate a DITA Map

You should validate your maps regularly to make sure that your topics are valid, and all of the relationships between them are working. Changing one topic, image, or piece of metadata may create errors in references that rely on them. You may not discover these problems all at once. Validate your map to catch all of these kinds of problems. The longer you wait between validating your maps, the more difficult it may be to detect and correct any errors you find.

To validate a map:

In the DITA Maps Manager, make sure that the tab that holds your root map is selected and that the Root map selection is set either to the name of your root map or to <current map>.
Click the Validate and Check for Completeness button on the DITA Maps Manager toolbar. The Validate and Check for Completeness dialog opens.
If you are using profiling, check the box Use DITAVAL filters, and select the appropriate options.
Select any other options you want to check.
Click Check.
The validator runs over the entire map. This process may take a while if the map is large. If there are any errors or warnings, they are displayed in separate pane. You can click on each error or warning to jump to the file where the problem was found.