How to change the message, if a href is empty?

[Denis]

Hello Oxygen Team,

We are using the Oxygen Author Eclipse plugin in version 15.2.

We want to change the "Empty URL reference" message of an image XML element in a Dita Task.



We can not figure out where

• to change the message?
• the href is validated?

Best regards
Denis

[Radu]

Hi Denis,

So you have two problems:

We can not figure out where
to change the message?

The red-error message does not appear when you edit a DITA topic in Oxygen without any extensions (stock installation of the Oxygen plugin). So probably one of your customizations (maybe a StylesFilter implementation or a CSS selector) adds that static error message in the Author visual editing mode.

the href is validated?

The validation message in this particular case indeed seems to be inappropriate, we will work to change it a little.
If in the Oxygen Plugin Preferences->Document Type Association page you edit the DITA document type, in the "Validation" tab there is a DITA validation scenario. If you edit it, the third validation stage is done using an Oxygen internal DITA validation engine. You can remove that validation stage if you do not want the message presented anymore.

Regards,
Radu