XDocument.Validate how to keep validating after errors? - validation

Question

i have a little problem and can´t figure out how to resolve it.
I am Validating an XDocument against a schema and i get all the nodes which have error. But the Validation process doesnt go deeper after finding an error.
_document.Validate(_schema, (o, e) =>
{
XElement xEle = null;
if (o is XAttribute)
xEle = (o as XAttribute).Parent;
if (o is XElement)
xEle = o as XElement;
if (xEle == null)
{
Debug.WriteLine(o.ToString());
return;
}
_elemtList.Add(o as XElement);
});
My problem is like following
<Car>
<CarName></CarName>
<CarInteriour>
<CarInteriorColor>Red</CarInteriorColor>
</CarInteriour>
</Car>
Lets say this is valid.
If i Change the following to
<Car>
<CarInteriour>
<CarInteriorColor></CarInteriorColor>
</CarInteriour>
</Car>
Here is the CarName tag missing and the color Red.
I will only get the error for CarName but not color Red.
The validation process seems to skip that structure because it did find an error.
Is there a way to still keep validating even if there was an error ?

Answer 1

Ok i found a solution which works for me and i am giving you an update because it works pretty neat.
What i am doing now is. I use a foreach for every XElement in my _document.Descendants() and i validate every element. This finds every error in the document multiple times.
So what i do is, i check my errorlist if i already did find this error before. My errorlist is a list of my own class errorcontainer which has the found XElement with the Error Message.
This way i only add new errors to the list and show this errors on a dialog. The user now can select an error and i will directly jump to the error in my editor.
ErrorContainer errorContainer = new ErrorContainer(xEle, e.Message);
if (_errors.Any(error => error.xElement.Equals(errorContainer.xElement) && string.CompareOrdinal(error.errorMessage, errorContainer.errorMessage) == 0))
{
return;
}
_errors.Add(errorContainer);
I hope this helps some other people who need help on this issue :)