XML Validation - How to raise an alert

Hi PI Experts,
I enabled XML validation at "Validtion by Adapetr Engine". Its working fine. But how to integrate XML validation error with Alert Monitoring. Please advise.
Here below the error from Audit log:
2010-03-18 18:33:13     Information     The application tries to send an XI message asynchronously using connection File_http://sap.com/xi/XI/System.
2010-03-18 18:33:13     Information     Backward validation is enabled
2010-03-18 18:33:13     Error     Unable to validate the message with message ID b01d356e-1801-4b93-29fb-9ed84b25c6a3
2010-03-18 18:33:13     Error     Returning to application. Exception: com.sap.engine.interfaces.messaging.api.exception.MessageFormatException: cvc-enumeration-valid: Value '11' is not facet-valid with respect to enumeration '[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]'. It must be a value from the enumeration. at line 15, column 34
2010-03-18 18:33:13     Error     MP: exception caught with cause com.sap.engine.interfaces.messaging.api.exception.MessageFormatException: cvc-enumeration-valid: Value '11' is not facet-valid with respect to enumeration '[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]'. It must be a value from the enumeration. at line 15, column 34
2010-03-18 18:33:13     Error     File processing failed with com.sap.engine.interfaces.messaging.api.exception.MessageFormatException: cvc-enumeration-valid: Value '11' is not facet-valid with respect to enumeration '[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]'. It must be a value from the enumeration. at line 15, column 34
Thanks...
Ravi Kanakam

Hi Ravi,
Are you getting other adapter engine alerts? Or only you are not getting xml validation ones? Also take a look at this:
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/09/09/xi-alerts--troubleshooting-guide
Regards,
---Satish

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abcd qwertyuioipafgjhkjljljklkjl
 
Open Extension via: Photoshop top menu > Window > Extensions > abcd.
 
Online support at: <a href="http://www.abcd.com/help.php">http://www.abcd.com/help.php</a>
 ]]>
</description>
<ui-access>
 </ui-access>
<license-agreement>
</license-agreement>
<files>
 <file destination="$ExtensionSpecificEMStore/com.abcd/html/abcd.html" products="" source="zxp-support/Description/abcd.html"/>
 <file destination="$ExtensionSpecificEMStore/com.abcd/html/abcd.png" products="" source="zxp-support/Description/abcd.png"/>
 <file destination="" file-type="CSXS" products="" source="abcd.zxp"/>
 <file destination="$automate" file-type="plugin" platform="mac" products="Photoshop" source="mac/abcd.plugin"/>
 <file destination="$automate" file-type="plugin" platform="win" products="Photoshop32" source="win32/abcd.8li"/>
 <file destination="$automate" file-type="plugin" platform="win" products="Photoshop64" source="win64/abcd.8li"/>
</files>
</macromedia-extension>
Can anyone please point out why am I getting the error?
Thanks

Hi CarlSun,
Thanks for the reply. I have made the changes suggested by you.
I have few queries:
1. Can we use attribute "source" in the description tag?
 I have created a local html page and specified it in source attribute. but the Extension Manager CS6 did not render the local html page and displayed the following:
 No description avaliable. Click the following link for more details.
 "http://www.abcd.html". Is it possible to display a local html page in Extension Manager CS6?
2. Can I display an image (png) in CDATA under description tag? If yes, then can you please guide me how can I do so?
3. As suggested in tech notes MXI file must include UTF-8 encoding as header (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>). The MXI I am using does not have this header. Do I need to include the header?
Thanks

XML Validation

Since there is no XML validation currently in the Flex/Flash framework, I've decided to start a class that parses a string in an effort to validate the markup, returning whether the XML is valid. I have a need for it in my non-server based application, and have read in numerous places where there is desire for it as well. I have built the class far enough to get the ball rollin', but figure it should be :
A) available to the community
B) able to be improved upon by the community
If you improve upon the code, please post your work here so everyone can benefit.
Here is the source code :
XML Validator : v0.2 - last edit by Justin Myers | J2 CREATIVE MEDIA DESIGN
NOTES:
Parser is a bit weak and needs work.
Still need to :
- Make sure tags are ended properly
- Make sure there is space between tag name and attribute
Parser currently handles :
- Making sure there is no space between tags (with exception to white space)
- Making sure that attributes open and close properly
- Making sure there is proper space after an attribute or that it is immediately followed with the tag closing
package community.classes.parsers
 public class XMLValidator
 public function XMLValidator()
 public static function validate(str:String , ignoreWhiteSpace:Boolean = true):Boolean
 // validation defaults to true (innocent til proven guilty)
 var valid:Boolean = true;
 // minimum char length to be valid XML
 if (str.length < 4)
 valid = false;
 var withinTag:Boolean;
 var withinAttribute:Boolean;
 var tags:Array = [];
 var tag:String;
 for (var i:uint = 0 ; i < str.length ; i++)
 var char:String = str.charAt(i);
 // if we are closing a tag
 if (char == ">")
 // invalid if we never opened a tag, or if we never closed the last attribute
 if (!withinTag || withinAttribute)
 valid = false;
 break;
 else
 withinTag = false;
 tags.push(tag);
 // invalid if last character is not a closing tag
 else if (i == str.length - 1)
 valid = false;
 break;
 // if we are entering a tag
 else if (char == "<")
 // invalid if we haven't closed the last tag
 if (withinTag)
 valid = false;
 break;
 else
 withinTag = true;
 tag = "";
 // all other characters
 else
 if ((char != " " || char != "\n") || ((char == " " || char == "\n") && !ignoreWhiteSpace) )
 // invalid if there are any characters between tags
 if (!withinTag)
 valid = false;
 break;
 else
 if (char == "\"")
 // entering attribute
 if (!withinAttribute)
 // invalid if = does not preclude ", or there is space before =
 if (str.charAt(i-1) != "=" || str.charAt(i-2) == " ")
 valid = false;
 break;
 else
 withinAttribute = true;
 // exiting attribute


961190 wrote:
so whats the best way to store Rules?
How to get the data validated with those rules given the source data is in a xml file
The "integrity rules"?
Since they have to be ececutable code I'd suggest Java classes...
How to get the data validated with those rules given the source data is in a xml file
as @hsc71 wrote, that each XML element select the rules this particular element should pass and run each rule with the current element as parameter.
This meight be easiser in the Rules have a common interface like
interface Rule{
public boolean isPassedBy(XmlElement theCurrentElement, XmlElement theRootElement);
You could use the ServiceRegistry class from the JVM to fetch the known rules, so that you can add new ones with minimum effort.
bye
TPD

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