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palmer@dst
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« on: October 20, 2011, 01:57:47 PM »
Is it possible, from within XMetaL (Map editor, or other view) to check the validity of all the files referenced in a DITA Map before generating output (I don't mean just "Refresh References")?

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RP
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Derek Read
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2011, 02:25:59 PM »
No, such a feature does not exist. Is this a common issue for you?

I'm primarily interested in why you might have invalid documents on disk.

We are looking at adding a feature that will allow you to perform various actions on multiple files, either referenced from a DITA map or on specific folders, but this particular one (validation) is no currently on the list of actions.
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palmer@dst
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2011, 02:58:30 PM »
It's not a common issue, but came up today when a map wouldn't convert to a PDF even tho it built a complete .fo file in the transform process but RenderX said the .fo wasn't valid, which in turn was due to an invalid XML file in the Map. With 100s of files in the Map, it would've been quicker to validate the files in the map as opposed to working backwards from the .fo file to figure out what the problem file was.

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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 01:22:04 PM »
OK, that sounds like a good use case. I will pass this on to development so they can consider it.

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