Arbortext Editor 6.0 Build 040 Completeness Checker - Empty Tag Errors
Hi all,
Having just updated one of our standalone workstations to Arbortext Editor 6.0 Build 040, we've noticed that the Completeness Checker now gives us errors for empty tags - which is a problem. (We've still got other stations running 6.0 Build r60m010 without this problem).
Background - We're a small shop doing DoD Military XML Tech Manuals using US Army LOGSA DTDs and Stylesheet filesets. During tech manual development, many of our tags (particularly parts data) have empty tags (immature parts data during TM development cycle), but the tags themselves (and some attributes) are required by the DTD.
We try to have everyone here diligently use the completeness checker, to ensure that our content is tagged as error free as possible. This is particularly helpful with newer, inexperienced TM developers. Everything runs cleaner that way, from our end and gov't receipt - almost singing Kum-bah-ya.
Problem: With Arbortext Editor 6.0 Build 040, the Completeness checker is now flagging hundreds (if not thousands) of errors for empty tags in our parts data areas, which gums up our ability to find and fix real tagging problems. Until this latest change, we were able to deliver draft TMs of upwards of 1300 pages with zero parsing or completeness errors that we could detect. Until today. We were smiley happy people... until now. What do we do?
Questions:
1. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? (and found a sane, painless way around it, mayhaps?)
2. Is there a way to 'tune' the completeness checker to have it iggy empty tags?
3. Any ideas? Any at all?
Thanks in advance for reading. Any and all insights greatly appreciated (particularly by the newbie XML TM developers here.)
Respectfully,
Bob Williams
Tech Research Group
(a tiny little tech manual shop in)
East Providence, Rhode Island
TEL 401.434.4680 (Office)


