Hi Kristen,
When automatic or manual validation is performed on a DITA topic, we
have about 3 validation stages, a stage in which the DTD/schema is used
to check for errors, a stage in which a custom Schematron schema is used
to check for errors and a stage in which a DITA specific error scanner
is used to check for more errors.
Our DITA specific error scanner for topics only checks for broken table
layouts and for references to missing topics but it could be improved to
also check for broken references to IDs in the same topic. I will add an
internal issue to do this. Hypothetically the error scanner could also
be improved to report links to other topics which have missing IDs but
this would mean that the validation would not be fast anymore, it would
need to also load those referenced topics and look into them. But for
IDs located in the same topic it's no problem.
For now maybe you can create a custom Schematron schema to do this extra
check:
https://blog.oxygenxml.com/2017/02/sharing-schematron-validation-rules.html
Some time ago we created this experimental Schematron schema:
OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\dita\resources\dita-1.2-for-xslt2-links-checker.sch
which actually looks inside the referenced topics for the IDs. It might
also work for references inside the current topic.
Regards,
Radu
Radu Coravu
<oXygen/> XML Editor
http://www.oxygenxml.com
On 10/24/2019 7:41 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:
I am cleaning up DITA source for a client.
I am finding errors that are flagged by the "DITAmap Completeness Check"
that are not caught by the standard DITA topic validation.
In particular, if a topic contains a (broken) cross reference to another
element within the same topic, the topic validation does not catch that
error.
Is there a way to set up a custom DITA topic validation that will catch
this sort of error?
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
_______________________________________________
oXygen-user mailing list
oXygen-user@oxygenxml.com
https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user
_______________________________________________
oXygen-user mailing list
oXygen-user@oxygenxml.com
https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user
