Hi,

Taking a shot in the dark here in hopes someone may have a solution.

I attempting to validate the data entered in Microsoft Word Content Controls 
(CC)  using an attached schema.  I can map a CC to a CustomXMLPart, attach a 
schema and detect violations.  CC schema violations are flagged in the 
document with a red dashed box outline.

Does anyone know how to count those boxes programmatically or otherwise 
determine if one or more CC schema violations exist in a document?

My real objective is to create functional, robust CC validation process. 
The schema validation method works great, but it has no teeth so to speak. 
All it does
is flag the violations.  If I could somehow count those violations then I 
could prevent a user from doing things like save, print, etc until valid 
entries are present.

There is a property:

ActiveDocument.XMLSchemaViolations that I could use for this purpose. For 
example, I could prevent saving the document using:

Sub FileSave()
If ActiveDocument.XMLSchemaViolations.Count > 0 Then
  MsgBox "Please correct errors before attempting to save or print this 
document."
  Exit Sub
Else
  ActiveDocument.Save
End If
End Sub

This counts document schema violation (i.e., XML tags applied directly to 
plain text in the document), but this doesn't detect violations in Content 
Controls.

I have also tried applying the XML tags directly to the CC range.  But 
again, the violations are not detected. I don't know that much about XML so 
I could be applying the tags incorrectly.

I have posted some pictures on my website to illustrate the problem.


http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/images/Schema violations.png



Sub CountViolaion()
MsgBox ActiveDocument.XMLSchemaViolations.Count
End Sub


Returns 1. There are clearly 2 violations present.



http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/images/No schema violations.png



Sub CountViolaion()
MsgBox ActiveDocument.XMLSchemaViolations.Count
End Sub




Returns 0. Actual conditions.



http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/images/Problem validation.png


Sub CountViolaion()
MsgBox ActiveDocument.XMLSchemaViolations.Count
End Sub




Returns 0. Now it doesn't even detect the direct XML tags.



If I could somehow detect programmatically the schema violation shown in the 
last illustration then I could add some teeth to my validation process.



Thanks for your interest and replies.








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