How to validate dacapture.cfg files??

How to validate dacapture.cfg files??

We can use iwxml_validate.ipl to validate but it expects files to be .xml and this is .cfg,
so just wondering how you guys validate it ??

thx in adv.
pavan

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james1

iwxml_validate.ipl does not require that the filenames on its command line end in ".xml". For example, I just ran iwxml_validate.ipl on my templating.cfg file, and it worked just fine.

-- James

Adam Stoller

Unfortunately I believe there are some issues with the distributed datacapture5.0.dtd that may make using it for validation purposes a little bit difficult (I believe it is an issue with the ENTITY declarations and/or references) - so your mileage may vary in trying to validate (beyond well-formedness) datacapture.cfg files.

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)

Pavan

It always gives me the following error for both .xml and .cfg files.
'The directory or file not found'

iwxml_validate.ipl is in my path and i run this command from the directory where my .xml or .cfg file resides.

any ideas ??

james1

First, run it with "-d 3" for more debugging messages. Maybe it will tell you more than it is currently telling you.

Second, provide us with some of your sample command lines. Maybe we can tell you more than it is currently telling you.

-- James

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James H Koh
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Adam Stoller

There are a bunch of issues with validating datacapture.cfg files that use the current datacapture5.0.dtd:

the validation script does not seem to handle the parameter entity references within the DTD
the datacapture.cfg files show the wrong docroot name in the DOCTYPE header
the datacapture.cfg files show only the name of the DTD and not the path to get to it

The combination of these issues is leading to your problems.

For issue #1, I've attached a "working" version of the DTD - in which the entity references are replaced with their actual values (not quite sure why that problem is occurring as it seems like it should work) - I suggest you keep a copy of the original file, just in case - but you can use this one in its place for validation purposes.

For issue #2, you will note that most of the datacapture.cfg files start off with:

< !DOCTYPE datacapture SYSTEM "datacapture5.0.dtd">
< data-catpure-requirements ...>
  ...
< /data-capture-requirements>

The DOCTYPE should be data-capture-requirements not datacapture

For issue #3 you either need to copy the datacapture5.0.dtd into the directory where the datacapture.cfg file is, or change the reference to being a full path to the DTD. However, on Windows you will need to use the following syntax:
"file://c:/iw-home/local/config/datacapture5.0.dtd"
If you leave off the file:// part, you'll get the "ERROR: No such file" error message.

(I believe issues 1 and 2 have already been filed)

Hope that helps,

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)