[eclipse-dev] Extension point schema validation

[dejan@xxxxxxxxxx]

Teams that adopted extension point schemas and added PDE nature to their
projects can benefit from turning the plug-in validation on. Go to PDE
Preferences ->Compilers, and turn all the problems from 'Ignore' to
'Warning'. After the rebuild, you may get a number of warnings caused by
missing required attributes, unknown elements etc. etc. These warnings may
indicate a real problem or simply a wrong schema specification. Note that
this validation is in addition to basic XML syntax checking (you cannot
turn that off if you have PDE nature).

We will increase all these flags to 'Warning' severity in M5.

Regards,

Dejan Glozic, Ph.D.
Manager, Eclipse Platform Components
D2/MY7/8200/MKM
IBM Canada Ltd.
Tel. 905 413-2745  T/L 969-2745
Fax. 905 413-4854