[oXygen-user] Analyzing Map Validation Logs

[Radu Coravu]

  Hi Eliot,

This is an interesting way to filter problems.
Maybe you have also sorted the messages by description and then remove a 
part of them from the output view.
We'll also try to add some more checkboxes in the dialog which 
configures the DITA Map validation options so that users can have more 
control and uncheck the warnings which are less important to them.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
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On 9/15/2010 8:09 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> I tested the new map validation feature by validating the full DITA 1.2 spec
> map, which is about as large a map as most people will have.
>
> The resulting validation large was long and includes a number of messages I
> know I can ignore, or least don't want look at.
>
> So to focus on specific errors here's what I did:
>
> 1. In the message result window I right clicked and did "Save results as
> XML".
>
> 2. Opened the XML file in Oxygen and applied the pretty print to it (so it
> would be easier to read).
>
> 3. Looked for distinguishing text in the message descriptions I wanted to
> ignore and then used this XPath to find all messages that didn't have those
> bits in their description:
>
> //incident[not(contains(description, 'subset')) and
> not(contains(description, 'key reference'))]
>
> This produces a list of<incident>  elements in the XQuery result list.
>
> I then just selected each search result in turn and it took me right to the
> log message I cared about. I could then use the "Open file at cursor"
> feature to open the file in question.
>
> Took me about 5 minutes to find and fix about 10 bad links scattered
> throughout several hundred topics and a number of maps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>