Check Well-Formedness

[BarryK]

I am new to this forum, and maybe this has been asked before, but seriously, "Well-Formedness"?!

Maybe it is a technical writer thing...

[adrian]

Hello,

It's even more technical, it's an SGML/HTML/XML technical term.
In Oxygen's case it refers to the verification of the XML document's correctness with regard to the XML specification.
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... dness.html

e.g. Document not well-formed

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<root><bad></root>

When using the "Check Well-Formedness" action you will receive this error:

F [Xerces] The element type "bad" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</bad>".

Regards,
Adrian