To validate a DITA map, go to the the
DITA Maps Manager view and click 
Validate and Check for
Completeness. You can also find the Validate and Check for
Completeness action in the DITA Maps menu. Invoking this
action opens the DITA Map completeness Check dialog box, which allows
you to configure the DITA Map validation.
The validation process of a DITA MAP covers the following steps:
- verifies whether the file paths of the topic references are valid. In case an href attribute points to an invalid file path it is reported as a separate error in the Errors view.
- validates each referenced topic and map. Each topic file is opened and validated against the appropriate DITA DTD. In case another DITA map is referenced in the main one, the referenced DITA Map is verified recursively, applying the same algorithm as for the main map.
The following options are available in the DITA Map Completeness Check
dialog box:
- Batch validate referenced DITA resources - this option decides
the level of validation that applies to referenced DITA files:
- if the check box is left unchecked (which is the default setting), the DITA files will be validated using the rules defined in the DTD or XML Schema declared in the document.
- if the check box is checked, the DITA files will be validated using rules defined in their associated validation scenario.
- Check the existence of non-DITA references resources - extends the validation of referenced resources to non-DITA files. Enable the Include remote resources options if you want to check that remote referenced binary resources (like images, movie clips, ZIP archives) exist at the specified location.
- Use DITAVAL filters - the content of the map is filtered by
applying a profiling condition set before validation:
- From the current condition set - the map is filtered using the condition set applied currently in the DITA Maps Manager view.
- From all available condition sets - for each available condition set, the map content is filtered using the condition set before validation.
- From the associated transformation scenario - the filtering condition set is specified explicitly as a DITAVAL file in the current transformation scenario associated with the DITA map.
- Other DITAVAL files - for each DITAVAL file from this list, the map content is filtered using the DITAVAL file before validation.
Note: A link invalid in the content that resulted from the filtering process is reported as an error. - Check for duplicate topic IDs within the DITA map context - checks for multiple topics with the same ID in the context of the entire map.
- Report links to topics not referenced in DITA maps - checks that all referenced topics are linked in the DITA map.
- Identify possible conflicts in profile attribute values - when a topic's profiling attributes contain values that are not found in parent topics profiling attributes, the content of the topic is overshadowed when generating profiled output. This option reports such possible conflicts.
- Report attributes and values that conflict with profiling preferences - looks for profiling attributes and values not defined in the Profiling / Conditional Text preferences page. It also checks if profiling attributes defined as single-value have multiple values set in the searched topics.
- Additional schematron checks - allows you to select a Schematron schema that Oxygen XML Editor uses for the validation of DITA resources.