[oXygen-user] "Job well done!" messages

[Wendell Piez]

Hi,

Of course, the usual thing with XML processors when validating has been 
to give error messages for syntax or validation errors, but to be coyly 
silent when no errors are found. The user is left to infer that 
everything is good based on the fact that there are no complaints.

oXygen improves this state of affairs by having a little box that lights 
up green when a document is valid, plus a line that says (with admirable 
clarity) "Document is valid".

However, some users wish for more. They'd like a trumpet fanfare or 
something analogous. (Wouldn't we all?)

In particular, I have some users who have asked if they can have their 
Schematron tell them when there are no errors. I have explained that 
they will probably have to be content with the green light, and I don't 
think this is too much to ask of them. But I am also wondering whether 
oXygen might have hooks somewhere that could be used to pop up an alert 
box or something, with a congratulatory message of some kind.

(This is a case, of course, when having an explicit Schematron report 
test when "not($a or $b or $c)" won't work, since the number of tests is 
in the double or triple digits.)

What are the ramifications here and what would it take for these users 
to get what they want? If this were all done inside a processing 
pipeline I could Schematron the results of my Schematron to run the 
test; but it's not; nor do they want it to be since of course they like 
the fact that their error messages have live links back to the documents.

I am imagining some kind of facility that could be associated, for 
example, with a validation scenario.

Cheers,
Wendell

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