[jdjwright]

Is it possible to disable validation in the XML editor. I am on a dial-up network at home and everytime (or so it seems) I save an XML file my modem starts dialling up.

Regards,

Joss

PS: I am using Windows 2000, Eclipse v2.1.0 build 200303272130, MyEclipse 2.5.1.

[Scott Anderson]

Joss,

Yes, you can disable validation using the preference setting in the XML editor’s preference page. The XML files will still be checked to ensure that they are well-formed, but they will not be checked against their DTD’s, which is the cause of your issue.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

[jdjwright]

Scott,

If you mean Window Menu > Preferences > MyEclipse > Editors > XML Editor > XML Deployment Descriptors > Disable Validation, I’ve already tried that and it does not work.

The problem occurs when I try to edit a Struts Config XML file in WEB-INF. Does MyEclipse only disable XML Validation for DTDs it ‘knows’ about? If so is there any way of adding further DTDs?

Regards,

Joss

[Scott Anderson]

Joss,

Yes, that’s the correct setting and it disables validation for all XML files in the WEB-INF and META-INF directories. But to be specific, this setting disables the validation check, meaning that the file won’t be checked against the DTD, but it will not disable the well-formedness check, just to make sure that the file is valid XML. However this check is done with a fast Sax parse on save and no network resources are referenced.

I just retested with a struts-config.xml file by turning validation off and inserting an incorrect tag after the struts-config tag. Like this:

<struts-config>
   <badtag/>

As expected, I received no error markers since the document continues to be well-formed, although it is no longer valid.

--Scott
MyEclipse Support


		
	

[ethan.wolf]

Joss,
If turning off validation by the editor didn’t work, perhaps the validation is occuring through the XDoclet external project builder? For example, with an EJB project, I opened the project properties and changed XDoclet Configurations-> Standard EJB-> ejbdoclet-> deploymentdescriptors->ValidateXML to false to disable validation during project builds.

Best of luck.
-Ethan

[Scott Anderson]

Ethan,

Excellent point! I completely forgot that XDoclet has its own settings. Thank you very much for pointing it out.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

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