Finding the code from schematorn message

[Patrik]

Hi,

when the schematron validation fails it writes a message. When clicking on the message the cursor goes to the node that has been evaluated. Is there an easy way to jump to the schematron rule that generated this message?

Since my schema is quite complex with few schematron files and several xsd files with embeded schematron rules finding it manuelly already takes quite some time...

As a workaround I already considered marking each rule with a unique id so I can at least find it with "find in files". Do I have to add this into the text content of the assert/report element or is there any attribute that is passed to the output as well?

Thanks and regards,

Patrik

[adrian]

Hello,

when the schematron validation fails it writes a message. When clicking on the message the cursor goes to the node that has been evaluated. Is there an easy way to jump to the schematron rule that generated this message?

I'm afraid there isn't. When you validate the XML instance with a Schematron schema the errors highlighted in the instance are not paired with the rule from the Schematron schema.
You've already identified a good workaround in using an error id to identify the location from the schema.

Regards,
Adrian

[Patrik]

After diving a little deeper into schematron I found out that it's actually quite easy to add the location information to the messages. I simply added the following code to the template "process-message":

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<xsl:if test="$show-code-pos = 'true'">

	<axsl:text>

		<xsl:text> [filename: </xsl:text>

		<xsl:value-of select="replace(@oxy:elementURI, '.*/', '')"/>

		<xsl:text>, line: </xsl:text>

		<xsl:value-of select="@oxy:elementLine"/>

		<xsl:text>, column: </xsl:text>

		<xsl:value-of select="@oxy:elementLine"/>

		<xsl:text>, uri: </xsl:text>

		<xsl:value-of select="@oxy:elementURI"/>

		<xsl:text>]</xsl:text>

	</axsl:text>

</xsl:if>

show-code-pos is a new parameter I had to set to "true" as default.

However, this is usually only interesting when you really have a problem with a schematron rule. Otherwiese the additional text is probably more annoying. Thus, an additional configuration parameter within oxygen would be nice to set the parameter show-code-pos accordingly.

Maybe you could consider adding this to oxygen.

Thanks and regards,

Patrik

[radu_pisoi]

Adding the possibility to identify the assert or report element that generates a certain Schematron message is a nice feature that will help Schematron developers to easily edit their schemas.

As you already noted, this feature can be annoying in some circumstances. So, there should be an option for enabling this support.

I will record an issue on our side.