XML Plugin

filePattern

Files to be validated against the schemas set through the schemas parameter.

Examples:

• If empty, all the files will be validated.
• pom*.xml will validate any of the following files: pom.xml, pom-module.xml
• **/pom.xml will validate any of the following files: pom.xml, dir1/pom.xml, dir1/dir2/pom.xml

schemas

Whitespace-separated list of schemas to use for validation.

It can either be set to:

• the namespace or short name of a built-in schema (ex: xhtml1-strict or http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
• or the URL to a schema (ex: http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd)
• or a relative path to a schema on the filesystem (ex: schemas/xsd/mycustomschema.xsd)
  

Default value: autodetect. In this case, the parser will try to load the schema based on the doctype or the namespace declaration in the document.

Built-in schemas:

This rule allows to define some homemade XML rules with help of an XPath expression.

Violations are created depending on the return value of the XPath expression. If the XPath expression returns:

• a single or list of AST nodes, then a line violation with the given message is created for each node
• a boolean, then a file violation with the given message is created only if the boolean is true
• anything else, no violation is created

Here is an example of an XPath expression to log a violation on each 'td' tag using the 'nowrap' deprecated attribute: //td[@nowrap]

filePattern

Files to be checked against the XPath expression set through the expression parameter.

Examples:

• If empty, all the files will be checked.
• pom*.xml will check any of the following files: pom.xml, pom-module.xml
• **/pom.xml will check any of the following files: pom.xml, dir1/pom.xml, dir1/dir2/pom.xml