How to configure Schematron content validation rules?

The Schematron Content Validation Rules Sample provides a Schematron Rules Engine (http://www.schematron.com) based content assertion and validation. The system integrator can configure a rules XML that asserts document rules. The nodes that fail the document validation are flagged as failing the rule. The user can also configure the highlight color to be used for the erroneous nodes.

As a sample demonstration, the sample also provides an example Schematron rules file ‘rules.xml‘ which asserts that an author should be associated with the document.

Configuration

To configure the Content Validation Rules Sample, follow the steps mentioned below:

• Copy the following files to the Quark XML Author installation folder, e.g. “C:\Program Files (x86)\Quark\Quark XML Author”
  • Quark.CMSAdapters.Samples.XA.ContentValidation.Schematron.dll
  • Quark.CMSAdapters.Samples.XA.ContentValidation.Schematron.pdb
  • rules.xml
• Download, extract and copy the following assemblies from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotnetopensrc (NMatrix.Schematron.0.6.zip), these provide a .Net based implementation of the Schematron specification:
  • GotDotNet.Exslt.dll
  • NMatrix.Schematron.dll
• Add the highlighted EIs below to the [Language Folder]/AppConfig/AppConfig-ext/MethodInfo_ext.xml file

  
  <Method id="SchematronValidationRule" assembly="Quark.CMSAdapters.Samples.XA.ContentValidation.Schematron" class="Quark.CMSAdapters.Samples.XA.ContentValidation.Schematron.ExtensibilityMethods" method="SchematronValidationRule">
          <Argument type="XomRoot"/>
          <Argument type="Tokens">
            <Token>ruleFilePath=rules.xml</Token>
            <Token>highlightcolor=Orange</Token>
          </Argument>
        </Method>
        <Method id="SchematronValidationRuleInfo" assembly="Quark.CMSAdapters.Samples.XA.ContentValidation.Schematron" class="Quark.CMSAdapters.Samples.XA.ContentValidation.Schematron.ExtensibilityMethods" method="SchematronValidationRuleInfo" >
  </Method>
  
  

• Modify the Quark.CMSAdapters.config file to add the EI methods to the ContentValidationRules/RuleSet/Rule configuration section. The sample snippet below only demonstrates configuration for the SAVE trigger, the same can be done for OUTPUT and EXPORT triggers as well.

  
  <ContentValidationRules>
    <RuleSet componentRoot="topic" productLine="busdoc">
  <Rule id="SaveRules" trigger="SAVE" condition="" policy="PROHIBIT" externalMethodIds="SchematronValidationRule"/>
    </RuleSet>
  </ContentValidationRules>
  
  

• If the sample is configured with Quark Publishing Platform, you could additionally configure the condition for the rule to be triggered on a specific workflow and status. In that case the appropriate check-in or output evaluation policy also needs to be set on the workflow/status

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