Omit showing XML elements in content assist, which are not a

[SSC]

Hello,

We have a DTD, which defines a certain order of the child elements of a XML element, but all the childelements are optional.
The problem we just faced is that the content assist and the elements view also offers those XML elements, which would cause a validation error, because of a wrong order.

Example:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE task PUBLIC "-//PI-MOD//DTD PI-Mod V1.2.2//EN" "pi-mod.dtd">

<task><heading>Sample Task Module</heading>

    <task_body>

        <actiondescription>

            <paragraph/>

        </actiondescription>

        <action>

            <step/>

        </action>

    </task_body></task>

If the cursor is behind the <action> element the content assist still offers to insert an <actiondescription> element and when an <actiondescription> element is inserted after the <action> element a validation error is shown:

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The content of element type "task_body" is incomplete, it must match "(((actiondescription|safetyadvice)*,action,or-action*,result?,troubleshooting*,note*)+,actionsequenceend?,outlook?)".

In my opinion the content assist and the elements view should not even offer to insert an <actiondescription> element after the <action> element, when it will cause a validation error.

Is this a missing feature or did I configure something wrong?

Best regards,

Simon

[Radu]

Hi Simon,

Could you send us (support@oxygenxml.com) a sample XML + the PI-MOD DTDs?
It would make testing on our side easier.

Regards,
Radu

[Radu]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the samples.

The content model in the DTD of the task_body element is something like:

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<!ENTITY % cm.task_body "

	(((actiondescription | safetyadvice)*, action, or-action*, result?, troubleshooting*, note*)+, actionsequenceend?, outlook?)

">

The + sign there indicates that the task_body can have one or more sequences of (actiondescription, action, ... note) tags.

So for example this XML is valid:

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<task>

    <heading>Sample Task Module</heading>

    <task_body>

        <actiondescription>

            <paragraph/>

        </actiondescription>

        <action>

            <step/>

        </action>

        <!--And here we can repeat again the sequence (the + sign in the content model)-->

        <actiondescription>

            <footnote></footnote>

        </actiondescription>

        <action>

            <step></step>

        </action>

    </task_body>

</task>

So the editor is correct in proposing the entries because the DTD is very relaxed, the validation error you obtain says that the content of "actiondescription" is incomplete and needs to be filled further.

Regards,
Radu