[oXygen-user] Analyzing Map Validation Logs

[Eliot Kimber]

I did not sort the messages in this case but that might be handy in some
cases.

Cheers,

E.

On 9/16/10 1:53 AM, "Radu Coravu" <> wrote:

>   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.
>> 
> 
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