[oXygen-user] "Job well done!" messages

[Wendell Piez]

Hi,

If Eliza were in oXygen, she would truly never die.

Cheers,
Wendell

On 1/12/2011 3:25 PM, Cramer, David W (David) wrote:
> And suggest yoga or psychotherapy to the users who need that much encouragement from their XML editor ;-)
>
> Hmm...in emacs you can do M-x doctor RET...
>
> David
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:  [mailto:oxygen-user-
>> ] On Behalf Of George Cristian Bina
>> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 4:26 AM
>> To: Wendell Piez
>> Cc: 
>> Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] "Job well done!" messages
>>
>> Hi Wendell,
>>
>> There is no possibility to show a message when the validation ends.
>> However, there are a few possibilities.
>>
>> We have an Information view that shows also messages for successful
>> validation. You can enable that from Window->Show View->Information.
>>
>> The Schematron implementation from oXygen is available in
>> [oXygen]/frameworks/schematron/impl. I believe you can change that to
>> automatically trigger an info level message when the validation is
>> successful. Then you should put all the files in a builtin folder and
>> pack everything as a jar or a zip and put that inside
>> oXygen/lib/endorsed (you need to create the endorsed folder). In this
>> way you will overwrite the default Schematron implementation from
>> oXygen.
>>
>> Do any of these help?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> George
>> --
>> George Cristian Bina
>> <oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>> On 1/6/11 6:02 PM, Wendell Piez wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Of course, the usual thing with XML processors when validating has
>> been
>>> to give error messages for syntax or validation errors, but to be
>> coyly
>>> silent when no errors are found. The user is left to infer that
>>> everything is good based on the fact that there are no complaints.
>>>
>>> oXygen improves this state of affairs by having a little box that
>> lights
>>> up green when a document is valid, plus a line that says (with
>> admirable
>>> clarity) "Document is valid".
>>>
>>> However, some users wish for more. They'd like a trumpet fanfare or
>>> something analogous. (Wouldn't we all?)
>>>
>>> In particular, I have some users who have asked if they can have
>> their
>>> Schematron tell them when there are no errors. I have explained that
>>> they will probably have to be content with the green light, and I
>> don't
>>> think this is too much to ask of them. But I am also wondering
>> whether
>>> oXygen might have hooks somewhere that could be used to pop up an
>> alert
>>> box or something, with a congratulatory message of some kind.
>>>
>>> (This is a case, of course, when having an explicit Schematron report
>>> test when "not($a or $b or $c)" won't work, since the number of tests
>> is
>>> in the double or triple digits.)
>>>
>>> What are the ramifications here and what would it take for these
>> users
>>> to get what they want? If this were all done inside a processing
>>> pipeline I could Schematron the results of my Schematron to run the
>>> test; but it's not; nor do they want it to be since of course they
>> like
>>> the fact that their error messages have live links back to the
>> documents.
>>>
>>> I am imagining some kind of facility that could be associated, for
>>> example, with a validation scenario.

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