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<title>Validating DTDs</title> | |
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<searchtitle>Validating DTDs</searchtitle> | |
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<shortdesc>Validating a DTD file lets you verify that it is well formed and | |
does not contain any errors.</shortdesc> | |
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<keywords><indexterm>DTD<indexterm>validating</indexterm></indexterm></keywords> | |
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<context><p>The following instructions were written for the Resource perspective, | |
but they will also work in many other perspectives. </p><p>To validate | |
a DTD, right-click the DTD in the Navigator view and click <menucascade><uicontrol>Validate | |
DTD File</uicontrol></menucascade>. A dialog opens, indicating if the DTD | |
file was successfully validated or not. If the file is invalid, any errors | |
will appear in the Problems view. </p></context> | |
<result><note>If you receive an error message indicating that the Problems | |
view is full, you can increase the number of error messages allowed in the | |
view. Click <menucascade><uicontrol>Window</uicontrol><uicontrol>Preferences</uicontrol> | |
</menucascade> and select <menucascade><uicontrol>General</uicontrol><uicontrol>Markers</uicontrol> | |
</menucascade>. On this preferences page you can increase or decrease the | |
number of visible items in the problems view. </note><p>You can set up a project's | |
properties so that different types of project resources are automatically | |
validated when you save them. Right click on the project, click <uicontrol>Properties</uicontrol>, | |
and select <uicontrol>Validation</uicontrol>. Any validators you can run against | |
your project will be listed in the Validation page.</p></result> | |
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<link href="../../org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.doc.user/topics/tjval.dita" scope="peer"> | |
<linktext>Validating code in enterprise applications</linktext> | |
<desc>General validation information</desc> | |
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