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

[Cramer, David W (David)]

And suggest yoga or psychotherapy to the users who need that much encouragement from their XML editor ;-)

Hmm...in emacs you can do M-x doctor RET...

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  [mailto:oxygen-user-
> ] On Behalf Of George Cristian Bina
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 4:26 AM
> To: Wendell Piez
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] "Job well done!" messages
> 
> Hi Wendell,
> 
> There is no possibility to show a message when the validation ends.
> However, there are a few possibilities.
> 
> We have an Information view that shows also messages for successful
> validation. You can enable that from Window->Show View->Information.
> 
> The Schematron implementation from oXygen is available in
> [oXygen]/frameworks/schematron/impl. I believe you can change that to
> automatically trigger an info level message when the validation is
> successful. Then you should put all the files in a builtin folder and
> pack everything as a jar or a zip and put that inside
> oXygen/lib/endorsed (you need to create the endorsed folder). In this
> way you will overwrite the default Schematron implementation from
> oXygen.
> 
> Do any of these help?
> 
> Best Regards,
> George
> --
> George Cristian Bina
> <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
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> 
> On 1/6/11 6:02 PM, Wendell Piez wrote:
> > 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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